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4.3/10   72 votes
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Writers:
Ruth Rendell (novel)
Elaine Waisglass (writer)
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She cooks. She cleans. She kills.
Plot:
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America... more | add synopsis
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Pretty strange movie.... more (7 total)

Cast

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Rita Tushingham ... Eunice Parchman
Ross Petty ... George Coverdale
Shelley Peterson ... Jackie Coverdale

Jonathan Crombie ... Bobby Coverdale

Jessica Steen ... Melinda Coverdale
Jackie Burroughs ... Joan Smith
Tom Kneebone ... Norman Smith
Peter MacNeill ... William
Donald Ewer ... Mr. Parchman
Joyce Gordon ... Aunt
Aisha Bicknell ... Young Eunice (as Aisha Tushingham)
Gary Krawford ... Larry
Wanda Cannon ... Bernice
Layne Coleman ... Pastor
Betty Harris ... Teacher
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Housekeeper
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Runtime:
102 min
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Version of La cérémonie (1995) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Pretty strange movie...., 14 June 2005
5/10
Author: lthseldy1 from Norfolk, VA

This movie begins where a lady living in England with her father is tormented by the memories of her childhood as an illiterate struggling to read. Her father teases her and nags her about going to school and learning how to read so that she can get a job. The lady, Eunice ends up going to America instead and becomes a housekeeper for a wealthy doctor and his family. Eunice learns how to manipulate people into getting what she wants because she cannot read and becomes a living nightmare for the family. She soon befriends a local church going lady and finds comfort in meeting someone just as crazy and insane as she is. The two become like a Bonny and Clyde team and take on the doctor and his family for revenge. I liked this movie, but it was not a movie that I would remember or even rent again. But it is worth a watch but only if there are no other horror movies your interested in on the shelf.

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