Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) is your atypical spoilt Beverly Hills brat. Her dad (Tom Skerritt, ALIEN, TOP GUN) foots the bill, but is all but close to billing a foot up her proverbial backside.
After being stopped for possession of drugs in her Mercedes and in a cell, her fairy godmother (Beverly D’Angelo, the NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION series) steps in to give her a stern lecture, making her father wish she’d never had a daughter – and sure enough, Jessie is out on her own with nothing, finding solace as a maid at the house of a rich couple….
Only making it to limited US theatrical release back in 1987 – and straight-to-video in the UK, MAID TO ORDER still manages to showcase Ally Sheedy’s evident acting talent in a fun, diverting yarn that subverts the whole Cinderella tale with rewarding results. Merry Clayton (who sang ‘YES’ on the DIRTY DANCING soundtrack, appears as the head maid)