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The Housemaid
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- 2025
- Paul Feig
- 131 mins
- 15
Summary
A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family's secrets are far more dangerous than her own. Thriller, starring Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar and Michele Morrone
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Terry Staunton
A live-in maid finds herself in hot water with a well-to-do family's mood-swinging matriarch in this frequently shocking psychological thriller, based on the novel by Freida McFadden. Recently paroled from prison, Millie (Sydney Sweeney) is desperate to keep the job in order to avoid being sent back behind bars. However, she endures all manner of poor treatment and violent outbursts from her unhinged employer (Amanda Seyfried) before more sinister problems come to the fore. Director Paul Feig has form walking the darker corridors of domesticity, but whereas 2018's A Simple Favour revels in blackly comedic upheavals to happy homes, The Housemaid is a genuinely unsettling depiction of dysfunctional families and breathtaking cruelty. Seyfried excels in a role that calls for her to flit from pantomime-like to pure evil, and Sweeney is impressive, too, blooming convincingly from put-upon maid to plucky heroine.
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Theatrical distributor
Lionsgate
Released on
2025-12-26
Languages
English | Italian
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sex references
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Colour
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