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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

Thriller | 110 minutes
3,29 751 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 110 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Curtis Hanson

Stars: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay and Matt McCoy

IMDb score: 6,7 (54.336)

Releasedate: 10 January 1992

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle plot

"Trust is her weapon. Innocence her opportunity. Revenge her only desire."

A gynecologist commits suicide when he is accused of sexually assaulting his patients. His heavily pregnant wife loses her baby as a result of this situation. She wants revenge and goes to work for Claire, who had sued the doctor, under the name Peyton as a babysitter.

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Full Cast & Crew

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Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders

Michael Bartel

Emma Bartel

Marlene Craven

Dr. Victor Mott

Marty Craven

Woman in Park

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yeyo

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Tss, such a backstory: good for nothing. Bad for the mythical aura that surrounds the 'invader' and thus much more efficient when his/her motives remain unclear (see: Poison Ivy ). Moreover, the motive in this case is too ridiculous for words. Anyway, I've been watching early '90s 'household in distress' thrillers a lot lately and found that The Hand That Rocks doesn't start enough with its setting. In films like these, the house where evil lurks must be upgraded into a full-fledged antagonist, a sort of idyllic prison whose bars are marked on the faces of the haunted characters. Anyway, here it is just a place that happens to be inhabited. What also doesn't help is the (mis)casting: Sciorra has a much too New York head (check those eyebrows) to be credible as a suburbia queen with a nose for gardening. That's what you'd expect at a shady subway stop in Brooklyn, not in a pearly white mansion. Matt McCoy (who ever that may be): first class lamzak. Even for the 'guiltless husband of the black widow's prey' category, he is extremely disinterested (there are five scenes where he ties hunted while wife is again proclaiming all kinds of ideas) and also disappointing: he responds to the advances of the evil temptress. Can't blame him of course, Rebecca De Mornay has almost the sex appeal of an alpine goat. Truly a film that makes you think afterwards: what a lot of shit was made in the nineties. Still, it's an era I deeply miss: Back then you could still get away with politically incorrect subplots, like a mentally retarded black who acts as a substitute for the barking family labrador who "senses the evil."

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Duke Nukem

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An above-average thriller with good acting and a strong portrayal of Rebecca De Mornay as the cold-blooded temptress and 'homebreaker'. Recommended! As far as I'm concerned, this film belongs in the same row as other strong thrillers from the 80s and 90s, such as Basic Instinct (from the same year), Fatal Attraction (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990) and Disclosure (1994).

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Lovelyboy

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Oldie of whom it has been many years since I saw him and now mainly strikes me as fascinating and entertaining.

Especially in the first phase, the film seems to suffer from its 90s image in terms of style, music and structure. The so-called idyllic image with the harmless madman in the garden is rather uninteresting and there is no real tempo. There is also not much tension and it does not really come to the very last phase.

Yet all this changes with the appearance of Peyton. The whole is still not overflowing with tension, but what is noticeable afterwards is the ingenious way in which she creates situations, plays people against each other and subtly disrupts the family and takes control. Ingenious is the scene where she is fascinated by watching herself sabotaging the inhalers. The film can therefore be hung in its entirety on a great DeMornay who excites, and is both frightening and exciting. The perfect combination of an innocent look and cunning. You have to love this woman.

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle can therefore be called a fine film with a fine Hudson and Sciorra, and an almost unrecognizable Moore. More than to do for once, but as a whole not really to be described as a thriller, but as far as I'm concerned it can be described as a psychological thriller.

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