21. April: The Housemaid (OV)

The Housemaid

US (2025)



Regie: Paul Feig
Schauspieler: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone
132 Minuten
The perfect house. The perfect family. The perfect lie.

Millie Calloway is desperate for a fresh start. Sleeping in her car, out on parole, and piecing together a fake résumé, she lands an interview at the grand Long Island estate of Nina Winchester — a cool, immaculate woman who seems to have everything. Nina offers Millie the live-in housemaid position, and for a moment, it feels like salvation. But the morning after moving in, the mask begins to slip. Nina is not who she presented herself to be, and the Winchester household harbors a tangle of secrets that no amount of cleaning can make disappear.

As the power dynamic between Millie and Nina shifts in unexpected and increasingly dangerous directions, nothing — and no one — turns out to be exactly as first appeared. Behind the manicured perfection of the Winchesters' world lies a web of manipulation, desire, and dark history that draws Millie deeper in before she can find her way out. Based on Freida McFadden's bestselling novel, the film keeps its twists coming right until the final moments.

A sly throwback to the lurid thrillers that used to dominate multiplexes — wicked sense of fun and a delightfully unnerving performance from Amanda Seyfried. (Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus)