Here comes major spoilers so don’t go any further if you still need to read the book or watch the movie!!!

Minor Differences:

•  Nina says she’s pregnant in the interview but actually never mentions being pregnant until after Millie has gotten the job (even then, I think she had just said they wanted a baby, not that they were expecting).
• Not that this is really a huge difference or even a difference at all, buuuuut I thought Millie’s room looked WAY nicer than I imagined that attic room to look. 
• There’s no “she’s allergic to peanuts” scene with Cece. 
• There was no “abalone” sandwich . I was honestly so upset because that scene was funny as heck in the book and they missed out on a great opportunity. Cece basically just says, “I’m not hungry anymore” after Millie gives her the baloney sandwich. 
• Andrew actually comes to the door for the scene where he and Nina are fighting in the middle of the night and Millie is calling to him to make sure he’s still alive. He doesn’t say a dang thing and shuts the door on Millie’s face (which also felt out of character). 
• Again, not really a difference, but BRO, they made Amanda Seyfried look so crazy when she came back home from dropping Cece off at camp. That makeup was insane. 
• Nina ends up slapping Millie when Andrew kicks her out (and it sounded damn hard too).
• When Nina is telling her side of the story, there was no “well, maybe I am crazy” moment. She always knew it was Andrew, which I think downplayed the true extent to Andrew’s manipulation. 
• The scenes between Enzo and Nina plotting her escape never happen. She basically says he became a friend and then you get like two scenes with him talking about what they should/shouldn’t do. 
• The police officer who helps with the cover up is actually a woman whose sister was engaged to Andrew (instead of being a man whose daughter was).
• Millie goes to Andrew’s funeral and Nina gives her one hundred thousand dollars. 

MAJOR DIFFERENCES:

• Nina legitimately FIRES Millie after she finds her watching Family Feud downstairs with Andrew (which makes NO sense to me because that could have seriously backfired on her plan to use Millie as a replacement). 
• Cece basically tells Millie to stay out of the attic (taking on Enzo’s roll more than poor Enzo). 
• Enzo basically speaks English and only speaks Italian once. They seriously cut his character so much and it was sad to see because he was great in the book. 
• Nina suggests that Millie buy tickets for the show. In the book, it was Andrew who asked Millie to find the perfect date. Both times Nina says a date and then accuses Millie of screwing it up. 
• Andrew and Millie DID NOT get separate rooms in the book. They were basically having sex in the cab on the way to the hotel. They only actually start making out and going at it in the movie because Millie goes to Andrew upset that Nina is threatening to fire her again. 
• The police end up arresting Millie for a “stolen” car (Nina’s car that she let her borrow) instead of an anonymous caller saying that Millie was stealing groceries (which is what happened in the book). 
• Millie broke Andrew’s mother’s china, which is why she ended up in the attic. 
• Nina’s original plan in the movie is legit to have Millie kill Andrew. In the book, all Nina said was that she wanted a sacrifice for Andrew. 
• Millie’s first punishment is cutting herself 21 times (because I guess holding textbooks on your hips for three hours isn’t torture enough for the writers). I really felt like this was out of character for Andrew to make Millie do. He never scarred Nina crazily like that in the book or movie, so it was weird that it was the first punishment he wanted from Millie. 
• Nina left a knife in the closet with the pee bucket, not the key. 
• Cece tells Nina they should go back for Millie (so it honestly made Nina feel less human for not making the decision herself like she did in the book). 
• Millie stabs Andrew in the neck and locks him in. She starts dropping china to get him to pull his tooth. (My favorite scene in this whole movie was Sydney Sweeney pulling out the gravy boat and saying, “I fucking love gravy 😂). Not only that, but she pours gasoline all over the door because the china doesn’t persuade him to do it either. 
• Nina gets to the house and lets Andrew out on accident. He isn’t dead yet (like he was in the book) and the two women and Andrew get into a final showdown before pushing him down three flights of stairs.

The amount of notes I took for this movie is INSANE. Despite everything that I have written down, I seriously thought the adaptation was really well done. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were awesome and they did a phenomenal job. Overall, a solid adaptation of Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid Let me know what you thought of my book vs. movie breakdown in the comments below!