The Maid

Aug 13, 2009

1h 36m

★ 6.7

She's almost part of the family.

Overview

Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Film Tank

Forastero

Diroriro

Oscilloscope

The Maid Trailers

Cast

Raquel

Catalina Saavedra

Pilar

Claudia Celedón

Camila

Andrea García-Huidobro

Lucy

Mariana Loyola

Mundo

Alejandro Goic

Grandma

Delfina Guzmán

Sonia

Anita Reeves

Eric

Luis Dubó

Lucas

Agustín Silva

Rodrigo

Juan Pablo Larenas

Lucy's Father

Luis Wigdorsky

Lucy's Grandmother

Claudia Paz

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