Maid to Order

Director: Amy Holden Jones
Genre: Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Fantasy
Year: 1987
Country: United States of America
Language: Spanish Language, English Language
Starring: Merry Clayton, Beverly D'Angelo, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ontkean, Ally Sheedy, Dick Shawn, Valerie Perrine, Jason Beghe, Rain Phoenix, Khandi Alexander

Maid to Order is a 1987 comedy/fantasy film starring Ally Sheedy.

Rich and spoiled twenty something Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) winds up in jail after a life of wild partying. Her father (Tom Skerritt) decides he might have been better off without a daughter, and with that her "fairy godmother" Stella (Beverly D'Angelo) appears and creates an existence where she must make it on her own. Jessie is then forced to find work as a maid for an eccentric rich couple (Valerie Perrine and Dick Shawn).

The film is an unusual variation on the Cinderella formula: the fairy godmother is not the means to a better life for the heroine but rather the nemesis. Stella is Jessie's primary obstacle to achieving her wish of regaining her old spoiled Beverly Hills lifestyle.

In the end, however, through her experiences with the other people in the mansion (former singer turned cook Audrey, Hispanic servant Maria and chauffeur Nick) Jessie learns the true meaning of love, friendship, and self-respect. When she chooses the happiness of her new friends over her own, she is rewarded with having her old life more or less returned to her.

The movie was released on VHS by International Video Entertainment

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