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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD) DVD

Description:Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1992 / Director: Curtis Hanson / Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay ... / DVD released 15 June, 2006 at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / A potboiler ... more

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD) ... featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being. Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face--literally--after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it--she's the doc's widow. The movie follows a tried and trusted formula, with the audience in on everything. However, the story does surprise us in intense and intimate ways. The visit to the obstetrician is one of the creepiest moments in the film. You definitely hear the voice of writer Amanda Silver in a plot concerned with the vulnerabilities of a family, a newborn, a marriage. Since we know so much up front, there is an overall lack of inventiveness in the plot machinations. It may not jolt us, but De Mornay does. It's unsettling to watch someone who appears so attractive and who behaves so kindly suddenly reveal hideous psychopathic tendencies. Restraining herself from going over the top, she instead oozes such malevolence you'll want to shudder. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Newest Review: ... movie revolves around the Bartel family, Claire is the asthma suffering mother of the family who is molested by her Doctor in ... more

 ... very unnerving scenes during a breast exam. When she realises what has happend they report the Doctor to the police and this encourages more molested women to come forward saying the same thing. The Doctor kills himself, leaving behind a loving but scorned widow who we come to know under the alias 'Peyton'. The shock of her husbands death causes her to lose her baby, and she becomes hell bent on revenge against Claire for coming forward and causing all this. Calling herself Peyton Flanders, she worms her way ...more

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Dangey2009
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD): The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (417 words)
by - written on 15/03/10 (Very useful, 13 readings)
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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is a great thriller released in 1992 that had me on the edge of my seat when I first watched it a few years back now. It is convincing and believable with great performances from the likes of Rebecca De Mornay, Ernie Hudson and Annabella Sciorra. The plot for this movie surrounds Claire played by Annabella Sciorra and details when she visited her new gynecologist. This is for a check-up late in her pregnancy. Claire feels she has been treated badly by the doctor in question and accuses him of misconduct. Once the story breaks it prompts other women to come forward too with their claims. Unfortunately weighed down by these ...  Read the complete review

blazeybug
Take it or leave it (1026 words)
by - written on 29/06/09, updated on  29/06/09 (Very useful, 22 readings)
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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

Great_reviewer07
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD): The Story Of The Psycho Babysitter... Never Seen That Before ... (1152 words)
by - written on 17/08/09 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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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

leeanne160480
WOMEN CAN BE B*TCHES! (535 words)
by - written on 31/05/09 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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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

leeanne
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (DVD): Just one of my favourite films (402 words)
by - written on 05/09/01, updated on  05/09/01 (Very useful, 35 readings)
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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 ...  Read the complete review