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The Neighbors' Window
The Neighbors' Window
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Directed by	Marshall Curry
Screenplay by	Marshall Curry
Based on	The Living Room; by Diane Weipert
Produced by	Marshall Curry; Jonathan Olson; Julia Kennelly; Elizabeth Martin;
Starring	Maria Dizzia; Greg Keller; Juliana Canfield
Cinematography	Wolfgang Held
Edited by	Marshall Curry
Music by	James Baxter ; The National
Distributed by	Marshall Curry Productions
Release date	April 26, 2019 (Tribeca Film Festival);
Running time	20 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$330,661

The Neighbors' Window is a 2019 American short film written and directed by Marshall Curry.^[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2020. The film was inspired by a true story by Diane Weipert, which she recounted on the podcast Love and Radio.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

Alli and Jacob are a couple of 30-somethings living in New York City with their three young children. Alli is busy and stressing in nursing the kids, straining her relationship with husband Jacob. Alli's apartment's window faces with an apartment neighbor's window. Alli and Jacob both covertly spy on the couple, bitter about their loss of youth and new responsibilities as parents.

One day, Jacob comments that the neighbor man has "shaved his head" and looks hungover. Shortly after, while Jacob and the kids are out, Alli spies across the street again to find the man in hospice; he dies soon after. Alli goes out to witness the man being taken out in a body bag and finds the wife crying on the sidewalk. The woman reveals that ever since her husband became "sick," they would find comfort in watching the family through the window, much in the way Jacob and Alli did. The two embrace.

The same night, as Jacob and the kids return from the museum, the family interacts with one another with joviality.