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The Housemaid: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2025 · United States of America · Mystery, Thriller · 2h 11m · English

The Housemaid is a 2025 United States of America mystery film directed by Paul Feig. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
The Housemaid
Director
Paul Feig
Writers
Rebecca Sonnenshine
Country
United States of America
Runtime
2h 11m
Release
Dec 18, 2025
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

The Housemaid Plot Summary

The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Paul Feig and written by Rebecca Sonnenshine. It is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and stars Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar. In the film, Millie Calloway, a young woman with a troubled past, becomes the live-in maid for a wealthy family whose household hides dark secrets.

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The Housemaid (2025) is a United States of America mystery film, directed by Paul Feig, running 131 minutes. Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. Critical reception: IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 73%, Metacritic 65/100. Tagline: "Discover what lies behind closed doors.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

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Sydney Sweeney
as Millie Calloway
Sweeney, coming off Euphoria and Anyone but You, takes the film's title role and has to carry every register the genre demands — terrified new employee, calculating survivor, romantic interest, eventual antagonist or victim depending on which way the third-act reveal lands. The casting trades on her established public image of vulnerability-as-armour and the film uses it as misdirection through the entire first act.
Amanda Seyfried headshot
Amanda Seyfried
as Nina Winchester
Seyfried, post-Dropout Emmy, plays Nina at a register pitched somewhere between Mean Girls's Karen Smith and the unstable wives of late-career Joan Crawford — bright, brittle, ostentatiously hospitable, and constantly half a sentence away from cracking. The casting is the film's biggest tonal bet: a beloved comedic-ingenue lead used as a Hitchcockian rival, and the performance pays the conceit out across two hours of escalating menace.
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Brandon Sklenar
as Andrew Winchester
Sklenar, breaking out from 1923 and It Ends with Us, plays Andrew with the exact kind of patient, attentive charm thrillers in this register weaponise — the husband who notices, who thanks, who lingers in kitchen doorways. The casting reuses the romantic-lead persona Sklenar has spent two years building and is exactly the trap the film is constructing for the audience.
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Michele Morrone
as Enzo
Morrone, the Italian actor international audiences first met in the 365 Days franchise, takes the supporting role of the Winchester estate's gardener Enzo and gives the film its quietest non-Anglophone presence. Enzo is the only character who clocks something is wrong before Millie does, and Morrone's restraint — most of the performance is in body posture and a few mistranslated sentences — gives the film a moral compass it cannot afford to lose.
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Elizabeth Perkins
as Mrs. Winchester
Perkins, working with the kind of veteran sharpness she built across thirty years of supporting work from Big to Weeds, plays Andrew's visiting mother Mrs. Winchester as a woman whose hospitality is itself a form of inspection. The performance gives the film its sharpest single dinner scene and supplies the institutional voice — the dynasty — that the younger characters are all in some way negotiating with.
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Indiana Elle
as Cece Winchester
Elle takes the small but pivotal role of the Winchesters' daughter Cece — a child whose watchfulness is the film's earliest tell that the household's official narrative is not the one the family is actually living. The performance is mostly silent, mostly observational, and gives the camera something to cut to during the adult conversations that the audience needs to be reading suspiciously.
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Ending Overview

How does The Housemaid end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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Where to Watch The Housemaid

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Frequently Asked

What is The Housemaid about?

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester.

Where can I watch The Housemaid?

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