What We Hide

What We Hide, also titled Spider & Jessie, 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.

What We Hide
Directed by	Dan Kay
Written by	Dan Kay
Produced by	Jeff Hoffman Yaniv Hoffman Dan Kay Joseph Restaino Dan Sima Tony Stopperan
Starring	Mckenna Grace Jojo Regina Forrest Goodluck Malia Baker Dacre Montgomery Jesse Williams
Cinematography	Pip White
Edited by	JC Bond
Music by	Alexis Grapsas
Production companies	Hungry Bull Productions Above the Clouds Beautiful Ghosts Productions Provoke Productions WinniePeg Productions
Distributed by	Gravitas Ventures
Release dates	February 2025 (2025-02) (Santa Barbara) August 8, 2025 (2025-08-08) (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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Release

The film at its world premiere under the title Spider & Jessie in February 2025 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.^[3] 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.^[4]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 10 critics' reviews are positive.^[5] 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".^[6]