The Girl in the Park is a 2007 drama film, the first directed by David Auburn, screenwriter of Proof (2005) and The Lake House (2006).

Since the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter 16 years ago, Julia (Weaver) has cut herself off from everyone, including her husband and son.

Filming began in New York City on November 13, 2006, and was scheduled to end on December 21, 2006.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Sigourney Weaver delivers a towering performance in this poignant meditation on unresolved grief.

"[1] Jason Solomons of the Guardian "likes this deceptive drama, its tensions and releases, its symbolic use of Scrabble to denote cohesion and confusion and its dark fears of parenting, children, ageing, loss and connection.