The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD)

This film is about the Bartel family, Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra), her husband Michael (Matt McCoy), and their 6-year-old daughter Emma (Madeline Zima). Claire is pregnant and whilst in the care of her new Dr, Dr Mott, she is sexually assulted. Michael encourages Claire to report it and soon other women start to come forward saying the same. Dr Mott then shoots himself, leaving his heavily pregnant wife to have a miscarriage with the stress of it all. She has to undergo an emergency hysterectomy and blames the Claire Bartel for all of it as she is the woman who made the complaint about her husband in the first place. Meanwhile ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review

Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra) is pregnant with her second child, on a visit to an obstetrician Claire is molested by her Doctor. Claire informs her husband Michael (Matt McCoy) of the crime and the couple file a complaint, following this complaint other victims come forward and knowing that his career is over the Doctor shoots himself in the head. Months later, baby Joe has been born and things couldn't be better for the couple. Michael thinks that Claire needs a break from taking care of the children 24/7 so he encourages her to hire a Nanny. Claire takes this advice on board and hires Peyton Flanders (Rebecca De Mornay) however what Claire doesn't know ...  Read the complete review

This is of my all time favourite films. This came out in 1992 and I got into the cinema to see it, even though I was only 12 and this is a 15 certificate - ssshh don't tell on me! I bought it on video when it came out, and when I got a Dvd player this was 1 of the first ones I bought. The film starts off with a family called the Bartel family. Claire Bartlett, her husband Michael, their small daughter Emma, and she is pregnant with a son, who she calls Joe. Family life seems to be going alright. She goes for a check up during her pregnancy and is a bit distraught afterwards. She feels the doctor, Dr Mott is being unprofessional. Although he is examining her ...  Read the complete review