What We Hide
2025 drama film
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What We Hide is a 2025 American drama film directed and written by Dan Kay. It stars Mckenna Grace and Jojo Regina as sisters who hide their mother's body following a fatal overdose. Forrest Goodluck, Malia Baker, Dacre Montgomery and Jesse Williams appear in supporting roles. It has received generally positive reviews.
- Jeff Hoffman
- Yaniv Hoffman
- Dan Kay
- Joseph Restaino
- Dan Sima
- Tony Stopperan
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| Directed by | Dan Kay |
| Written by | Dan Kay |
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| Cinematography | Pip White |
| Edited by | JC Bond |
| Music by | Alexis Grapsas |
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| Distributed by | Gravitas Ventures |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
After their mother dies from an overdose, the sisters Spider and Jessie hide her body out of a fear that they will be separated by the foster system.
Cast
- Mckenna Grace as Sadie “Spider”
- Jojo Regina as Jessie
- Jesse Williams as Sheriff Ben Jeffries
- Dacre Montgomery as Reece
- Forrest Goodluck as Cody
- Malia Baker as Alexis
Production
The film was announced by Deadline Hollywood in October 2022.[2] It was filmed in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties in Florida, United States, between 2022 and 2023 at Seminole High School and Bauder Elementary School. Hurricane Ian halted filming for six days.[3]
Release
The film at its world premiere under the title Spider & Jessie in February 2025 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.[4] It was released in select theaters on August 8, 2025, and became available on digital and video on demand on August 29 under the title What We Hide.[5]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 10 critics' reviews are positive.[6] Monica Castillo of RogerEbert.com unfavourably compared What We Hide to the coming-of-age drama film Winter's Bone (2010), saying it "simply does not carry that suspense or tension". She wrote that the film "has the feeling of an old after-school special, a melodramatic lesson about a topical issue".[7]
