The Housemaid

Story:

Paul Feig is the director of the 2025 American erotic psychological thriller The Housemaid. Starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar, it is based on Freida McFadden’s 2022 novel. In the movie, a young woman with a difficult history named Millie Calloway works as a live-in maid for a wealthy family whose home is secretive.

The Housemaid debuted on December 2, 2025, at the Axa Equitable Center in New York City, and Lionsgate distributed it in the US on December 19. Critics gave the movie mostly favorable reviews, and it made $391 million on a $35 million budget. Feig and Sweeney are expected to return in the upcoming sequel.

Plot

Nina Winchester hires Millie Calloway as a live-in maid while she is on parole for manslaughter. She is granted an attic bedroom that can be secured from the outside when she moves in with Nina’s affluent husband Andrew and daughter Cece in their Great Neck, Long Island, home. As part of her parole, Millie is desperate to maintain her employment. She finds out that Nina was previously institutionalized for attempting suicide by overdose and drowning Cece.

Millie arranges a hotel for the Winchesters and Broadway theater tickets at Nina’s request, but Nina later disputes giving her these directives. Andrew and Millie covertly attend the performance, have supper together, and check into the hotel while Nina takes Cece to ballet camp. Andrew consoles Millie after she receives a barrage of irate texts from Nina. They engage in sexual activity. When they go home, Millie discovers that Nina is aware that she was imprisoned for ten years for the murder of a high school rapist.

Nina threatens Millie after discovering the playbill for the musical, but Andrew stands up for her and insists that Nina leave. Millie and Andrew are still in a romantic relationship. When Enzo, the groundskeeper, appears outside the door, Millie is terrified and drops and breaks the heritage porcelain plate that Andrew’s mother gave him for breakfast. Millie is instructed to pick up the pieces when Andrew fires Enzo. Andrew questions her that evening about why she didn’t wash the plate’s shattered parts. Afterwards, he confines Millie into the attic chamber after getting her inebriated.

After picking up Cece from camp, Nina writes her daughter a letter outlining the reality about her marriage. As a young single mother parenting Cece, she developed feelings for Andrew. Andrew asked Nina to turn her brunette hair blonde early in their marriage. When she neglected to do so, he kept her in the attic room until she removed one hundred hairs from her scalp. He then made her repeat the process, alleging that one strand lacked a follicle. After that, he gave her drugs, falsely accused her of trying to kill Cece and herself, and kept torturing her by locking her up in the attic and mental health facility.

Only Enzo believed Nina when she revealed the truth about her circumstances. Nina recruited Millie because she was determined to get away from Andrew’s mistreatment. She thought Millie could defend herself and correctly predicted that Andrew would abandon her for Millie. Andrew punishes Millie for shattering the china by giving her a shard and making her slash her stomach once for each of the plate’s twenty-one pieces. Millie then locks him in the attic room after stabbing him with a cheese knife that Nina had concealed for her. By threatening to set the attic on fire, Millie coerces him into using pliers to extract one of his front teeth.

Thinking Millie is still inside, Nina sneaks into the house and opens the attic door after Cece advises her to help Millie. Nina and Millie are attacked by Andrew, but Millie appears to get away. When Andrew tries to murder Nina, Millie reappears and kills him by pushing him off the stairs. In an attempt to give the impression that Andrew fell while trying to place the lightbulb in the chandelier, Nina drops one.

Jessica Connors, a police officer, observes that Nina’s account for Andrew’s death is called into question by the evidence. Jessica implies that she is aware of Andrew’s true character and considers his death to be an accident by mentioning that her sister was previously engaged to him. Nina gives Millie a $100,000 check following Andrew’s burial and then departs with Cece to begin a new life. When Nina suggests Millie’s services to a friend, it is implied that her spouse is abusive. When can she begin, Millie asks?