Maid to Order (1987)

Directed by

Amy Holden Jones

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A spoiled rich girl is turned penniless by her fairy godmother and must work as a live-in housekeeper for a music executive. She learns about hard work and friendship while helping a fellow housekeeper get a chance to perform on stage.

lightheartedwhimsicalupliftingfeel-good80ssillymodestplayful

What happens

Maid to Order is a 1987 American comedy film with fantasy film elements, co-written and directed by Amy Holden Jones. The movie stars Ally Sheedy as spoiled rich kid Jessie, who is made penniless when her fairy godmother casts a spell to erase her existence, forcing her to become a white live-in housekeeper for a new money, somewhat washed-up executive's family in the music industry, in a reversal of the Cinderella formula. Through the course of the film, Sheedy's character learns many lessons, such as the value of hard work (including when she is finally able to buy a Sony Walkman tape cassette player to listen to music while she scrubs bathrooms), and the value of friendship (such as when she enables a washed-up but very talented black former singer, who also is a housekeeper where she works, to have a chance to "still shine" and perform on stage at the exec's concert when the original act falls through due to some actions on the part of her fairy godmother). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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