The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD)

Admittedly there are few here who will not have already seen this movie or seen it in the television listings and passed it by - its certainly had that many showing thats you'd be hard pressed to have avoided it completely anyway. As such, its not something I would generally bother to review, but having just been wandering through Dooyoo's movie section(as I tend to do out of necessity since the search engine is a little 'unreliable' shall we say) I stumbled across it and wondered what Dooyoo reviewers had made of it. Strangely, what is considered to be one of the better, more suspenseful 'enemy within' style movies only receives very poor 1 and 2 ...

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is a pretty lame film, but highly entertaining nonetheless. The plot is a fairly contorted affair, fortunately this means that there's plenty happening to keep you awake in the first half of the film. Mother to be Annabella Sciorra attends a prenatal check-up and is sexually abused by her consultant, Dr Mott. An enquiry into the incident leads the doctor to commit suicide and the impact of his death on his pregnant wife (heavily overacted by Rebecca De Mornay) causes her to miscarry. Mrs Mott blames Annabella for Dr Mott's suicide and - very reasonably I thought - sets about destroying her life and stealing her family. ...

This film came out in the cinema in 1992, and I have watched it countless times. It is classed as a thriller and I suppose that is right. The film is rated a 15, and lasts for 105 minutes. The 2 named actors are Rebecca De Mornay and Annabella Sciorra. Annabella plays Claire Bartel. She is a married woman, who has a loving husband and a little girl. She is pregnant with a boy and has the perfect family. She goes for a check up and believes the doctor is being unprofessional and he is feeling her up and asking strange questions. She leaves the surgery in a state, and with the support of her husband, she reports the doctor to the board. After ...