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Sydney Sweeney’s 116-Minute R-Rated Thriller Is Officially One of the Biggest Movies on HBO Max

Sydney Sweeney’s 2021 erotic thriller is finding a new audience nearly five years after its original streaming debut Sydney Sweeney has spent the past several years building a surprisingly varied Hollywood résumé. While Euphoria made her a household name as Cassie Howard, Sweeney has increasingly moved between genres and radically different characters. In 2025 alone, Sweeney played a champion boxer in Christy, a live-in housemaid who discovers her wealthy employers are hiding some disturbing secrets in The Housemaid, and a troubled daughter pulled into a dangerous family crisis in Echo Valley. She even stepped behind the camera as a producer and actor on 2024’s Immaculate, starring as a young American nun who discovers something horrifying inside an isolated Italian convent. As Sweeney continues to add high-profile projects to her résumé, one of her lesser-known thrillers has unexpectedly found a new audience on streaming. The Voyeurs, a 2021 erotic thriller starring Sweeney, is now enjoying a surprising resurgence on HBO Max — the film has climbed to No. 4 on the platform's worldwide movie chart, according to FlixPatrol. Having originally debuted on Prime Video in September 2021,

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Sydney Sweeney’s 116-Minute R-Rated Thriller Is Officially One of the Biggest Movies on HBO Max

Sydney Sweeney’s 2021 erotic thriller is finding a new audience nearly five years after its original streaming debut Sydney Sweeney has spent the past several years building a surprisingly varied Hollywood résumé. While…

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