
Set (and filmed) entirely on the posh east end of Long Island, THE MAID'S ROOM centers around Drina, an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawfords, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. The job could be worse, since Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must ... (Full plot summary below)
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Set (and filmed) entirely on the posh east end of Long Island, THE MAID'S ROOM centers around Drina, an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawfords, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. The job could be worse, since Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid's room is next to the garage, Drina can't help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily drunk. The next day, she sees that Brandon's car is battered and bloodied and, when she reads in the local paper that there has been a fatal hit and run, it's clear who's responsible. Knowing the Crawfords will do anything to protect their precious son, Drina realizes that, for once, she has some power over her employers. Though the situation is intoxicating, it also places her in far more danger than she imagines.
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| Movie MezzanineJosh SpiegelThe Maid's Room is not as predictable as it initially seems, but it's far less impressive than its bombastic score and puffed-up script would believe. |
| Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangThere's just enough compelling reversals and anything-could-happen suspense to make this increasingly claustrophobic work effective. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe Maid’s Room has much to recommend, including the versatile Mr. Camp (“Tamara Drewe,” “Compliance”) in a Machiavellian role. But it doesn’t marshal its twists toward a convincing or satisfying conclusion. |
| Slant MagazineNick PriggeDrina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few. |
| Village VoiceAbby GarnettToo low-stakes for horror, too lamebrained for satire, and too incoherent to be didactic, The Maid's Room simply uses Drina and then throws her away. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibAfter a seductively moody intro, Michael Walker's domestic thriller devolves into a cartoonish attack on the filthy rich. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirLet’s be clear right up front that The Maid’s Room doesn’t quite work, intriguing premise and all, and that the fault lies with Walker’s labored script and wooden characterization. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAiming for Hitchcockian suspense but coming closer to daytime drama, the film offers only occasional tension. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIt’s admirable that writer/director Michael Walker wanted to make a socially conscious thriller. But surely he didn’t have to replace all the thrills with broadly moralizing messages. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohInitially gripping, in a Hitchcock/Ozon way, this atmospheric thriller turns banal and unconvincing in its second half. |