Nicole Kidman’s Holland Could Be An Even Better Don’t Worry Darling

Nicole Kidman continues to fulfil her pledge of working with more female directors, and the next to be crossed off her list is Mimi Webb, who previously directed Fresh starring Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Webb’s sophomore feature film is Holland, which has gathered even more of an A-list cast, written by Andrew Sodroski and produced by Kate Churchill, Peter Dealbert and Per Saari with Kidman herself. Here are all of the details.

Holland: Plot, Cast, Release Date & More

NICOLE KIDMAN stars in HOLLAND. (Prime Video)

What Is Holland About?

Described by Prime as a ‘wildly unpredictable thriller’, Holland is set in the titular location: a picturesque, windmill- and tulip-filled town in Michigan – crucially not the Netherlands, though the brand new trailer is fit to burst with Dutch dancing, clogs and bonnets. We centre on Nancy Vandergroot (Nicole Kidman), a Stepford wife style teacher and homemaker, and her life with her community-pillar husband Fred (Matthew Macfadyen) and their son Harry (Jude Hill).

‘Everyday, I get to wake up in the best place on Earth,’ Nancy says as the trailer opens. But then later she adds: ‘It may seem like we have everything all together, but right under the surface, it’s like we’re being strangled.’ Thus Nancy begins to unravel, and the trailer descends into a Hitchcock-style thriller of hallucinations and topsy-turvy confusion. Nancy’s husband seems to hold a villainous place in the film, as Nancy teams up with her colleague Dave (Gael García Bernal) to spy on him. ‘It’s like, you know, you should leave a scab alone,’ Nancy’s voiceover continues in the trailer. ‘In picking it, you’re only going to hurt yourself. But you do it anyway.’

There are definite Don’t Worry Darling vibes, Olivia Wilde’s buzzy 2022 film which centres on a housewife in a too-good-to-be-true 1950s town, which turns out (spoilers) to be a simulation. In the works for more than a decade (Naomi Watts and Brian Cranston were originally pegged to star way back in 2013), it’s not clear just yet which direction Holland will move in, but there’s definitely a big secret looming over the town.

The Trailer

The Cast

• Nicole Kidman as Nancy Vandergroot
• Gael García Bernal as Dave Delgado
• Matthew Macfadyen as Fred Vandergroot
• Jude Hill as Harry Vandergroot
• Rachel Sennott as Candy Deboer
• Lennon Parham as Lennon
• Isaac Krasner as Shawn Graumann
• Jeff Pope as Squiggs Graumann
• Jacob Moran

MATTHEW MACFADYEN and JUDE HILL star in HOLLAND. (Prime Video)

Is Holland A Real Place?

Yes, Holland is a real town in Michigan with, you guessed it, a rich Dutch heritage. Established by Dutch Americans in the mid 19th century, the heritage is remembered in the local Holland Museum, the Cappon House Museum, the Dutch Village, the Settlers House Museum and the Tulip Time Festival held annually in May. The town is also home to a park called Windmill Island, home to a 250-year-old Dutch windmill called De Zwaan – the only authentic, working Dutch windmill in the States.

As well as being set here, Holland was filmed in the real Holland, including at Windmill Island Gardens. Additional filming took place in Nashville Tennessee.

NICOLE KIDMAN and GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL star in HOLLAND. (Prime Video)

Holland Release Date

Holland will launch internationally on Prime Video on 27 March 2025. Before that, it’ll premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas on 9 March.