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GenreDrama, Mystery & Thriller
RatedR
Runtime2 hr 11 mins
ReleasedDecember 19, 2025
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorPaul Feig
StarringSydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar
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The Housemaid (2025)
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| The Housemaid's Details | |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery & Thriller |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 12/02/2025 (Axa Equitable Center); 12/19/2025 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 11 mins |
| Budget | $35M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | The Housemaid by Freida McFadden |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| The Housemaid's Interests | |
| General | Attic bedrooms, outside locks, spotless kitchens, Long Island mansions, heirloom china. |
| Music | Theodore Shapiro, plus a needle drop list featuring Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." |
| Movies | Rebecca (1940). Big house, new arrival, a household that runs on secrets. |
| Television | Desperate Housewives. The neighbors are watching, and so are we. |
| Heroes | Millie. Needs this job, notices everything. |
| The Housemaid's Crew | |
| Director | Paul Feig |
| Writers | Rebecca Sonnenshine |
| Producers | Todd Lieberman, Laura Fischer, Paul Feig |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Music | Theodore Shapiro |
| Edited By | Brent White |
| Production | Hidden Pictures, Pretty Dangerous Pictures |
| Distributed By | Lionsgate |
You will spot the lock on the outside of Millie’s attic door, and so will everyone else in the theater. The Housemaid is an airport paperback with a movie-star budget. Millie, fresh out of prison and needing to keep a job, takes a live-in position at a Long Island mansion. A couple of the twists are visible from the driveway. It also flirts with something sharper about the picture-perfect housewife fantasy and then backs off. But Amanda Seyfried is a riot as Nina, the boss who smiles, snaps, accuses and apologizes in the same breath. Sydney Sweeney plays Millie, a woman who can’t afford to walk out no matter how weird it gets. Paul Feig directs with a wink, and the final stretch gets genuinely wild. It’s rated R and turns dark, so it’s strictly for grown-ups. It made $400.5 million worldwide on a reported $35M. A 6.0 because Seyfried is a blast and the story is proudly pulpy. $6,464 says you call one twist early, miss the bigger one, and tell everyone you saw both coming.
What works: Amanda Seyfried is wonderfully unnerving, and Paul Feig leans into the twisty, pulpy fun of an old-school thriller.
What doesn’t: Several twists are easy to spot well ahead of time, and it flirts with sharper ideas about the perfect-housewife fantasy without committing.
Who it’s for: Adults who love a pulpy page-turner and like guessing the twist before the movie gets there.
Spoilers
Nina isn’t the danger; her husband Andrew is, and she hired Millie hoping he would fall for her and let Nina and her daughter go. Millie and Nina turn the tables, Andrew doesn’t survive the night, and Nina leaves to start over while Millie takes a new job.
Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is fresh out on parole and needs a job, badly. So when wealthy Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) hires her as a live-in maid at a Long Island mansion, Millie says yes, even though her new bedroom is in the attic and the door locks from the outside. Nina's husband Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) is kind and charming, their daughter Cece (Indiana Elle) is a handful, and Nina herself flips from sweet to impossible overnight. Paul Feig directs, adapting Freida McFadden's novel. One hundred thirty-one minutes, check the lock first.
Anyone who reads the fine print on a live-in job offer. Ask about the attic.
| Sydney Sweeney | Wilhelmina "Millie" Calloway |
| Amanda Seyfried | Nina Winchester |
| Brandon Sklenar | Andrew Winchester |
| Michele Morrone | Enzo Accardi |
| Elizabeth Perkins | Evelyn Winchester |
| Indiana Elle | Cecelia "Cece" Winchester |
| Amanda Joy Erickson | Suzanne |
| Megan Ferguson | Jilianne |
| Ellen Tamaki | Patrice |
| Don DiPetta | Officer Jenkins |
| Lamar B. Slaughter | Officer Stanley |
| Alaina Surgener | Amanda |
| Alexandra Seal | Jessica Connors |
| Brian D. Cohen | Detective Smythe |
| Hannah Cruz | Lexi |
| Ellen Adair | Lisa Killefer |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +520 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $400.5M; Domestic box office $126.4M; Opening weekend $19M; Profit / loss (est.) +$147.7M; Rotten Tomatoes 74%; CinemaScore B; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 74% (202 reviews); Metacritic 65 / 100; PostTrak audience 84% positive; CinemaScore B; IMDb users 6.7 / 10 (206,973 votes); movie.guru score 5.6.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 18 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.