The film `` The Girl on the Train '' is based on a Paula Hawkins ' 2015 debut novel of the same name .
The Girl on the Train is a 2016 American mystery thriller drama film directed by Tate Taylor and entirely improvised on set by the leading actors who followed the indications of the screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson .
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