The Housemaid (2025)
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A woman with a troubled past becomes a live-in maid for a wealthy family whose household hides dark secrets.
The story
Recently paroled Millie Calloway is hired by Nina Winchester as a live-in maid in a Great Neck, Long Island mansion, where she lives with Nina, her wealthy husband Andrew, and their daughter Cece. As a parolee, Millie must maintain lawful employment. While the household appears wealthy, Millie begins to notice unsettling behaviors from Nina, including mood swings and violent outbursts. As Millie grows concerned and begins looking for other work, she discovers the dark reality of the family's internal dynamics and the secrets hidden within the walls of the mansion.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Millie Calloway, a recently paroled woman, takes a job as a live-in maid for the wealthy Winchester family on Long Island. She soon discovers that Nina, the mother, is mentally unstable and being controlled by her husband, Andrew. After a clandestine affair between Millie and Andrew, the truth of their domestic life is revealed: Andrew has been abusing and imprisoning Nina in the attic for years. When Andrew eventually imprisons Millie in the attic and demands she self-harm, she retaliates by drugging him and locking him inside. The tension culminates in a violent confrontation where both women are attacked by Andrew. Ultimately, Millie kills Andrew, and Nina helps her cover up the crime as a 'freak accident.' The film ends with Nina and her daughter moving to California, while Millie takes a new job with a friend of Nina's who also suspects her husband is abusive.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 131
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Paul Feig
- Writers
- Rebecca Sonnenshine · screenplay
- Cast and characters
- Sydney Sweeney; Amanda Seyfried; Brandon Sklenar; Michele Morrone; Elizabeth Perkins
- Genres
- erotic psychological thriller
- Themes
- domestic violence; secrets; abuse
- Tone and mood
- erotic; tense
- Setting
- A mansion in Great Neck, Long Island.
- Premise and plot tags
- psychological thriller; erotic thriller; women in prison; domestic violence
- Source material / true-story basis
- 2022 novel by Freida McFadden
- Franchise connections
- The Housemaid
- Content notes
- violence
- Reception
- The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was well-received by audiences.
- Reported review scores
- CinemaScore · score: B · scale: A+ to F; PostTrak · score: 84%
- Production trivia
- The film features a score by Theodore Shapiro, his eighth collaboration with Feig.; The film grossed $400.5 million on a budget of $35 million.
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