Housemaid, The (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Paul Feig. Thriller. Based on the book by Freida McFadden. A young woman (Sydney Sweeney), desperately in need of employment, secures a job as a housemaid for a wealthy and seemingly happy family (Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang; infrequent use of profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent references to suicide - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - blood and brutal wound details; infrequent portrayals of injuries and corpses - blood, some gory detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual assault - buttock nudity, little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - breast and buttock nudity, some detail
• Infrequent breast and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Power and control
• Appearances versus reality
• Uncovering the truth

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence, sexual content, and coarse language

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