The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle follows a vengeful, psychopathic widowed nanny, who loses her child, embarks on a mission of vengeance against a naive woman and her family.
2 March 1950, Queens, New York, USA
29 August 1959, Santa Rosa, California, USA
16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
March 20, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 August 1954, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
February 3, 1984 in Bremerton, Washington, USA
12 February 1953
3 January 1946, USA
29 March 1960, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
20 May 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
8 October 1959, Long Beach, California, USA
10 November 1991, Seattle, Washington, USA
July 10, 2013
All of the best parts here go to women -- Sciorra, De Mornay and Julianne Moore in a funny supporting bit as Claire's cynical, suspicious friend.
July 10, 2013
The film is unusually gripping.
July 10, 2013
Unpretentious and efficient.
July 10, 2013
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, though it positions itself as chilling suspense, is not even mildly scary; it's just offensive.
July 10, 2013
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is that rare thing, a realistic thriller wise enough not to sell short any of its characters. Just be prepared to become very, very scared when you see it.
July 10, 2013
This is De Mornay's film and she's a wicked treat, looking daggers at her enemy one moment and then glazing over with sweetness the next.
July 10, 2013
The careful structure of THTRTC guarantees that the movie will generate a fair amount of suspense throughout. But the single-mindedness of the movie is a genuine limitation, and, watching it, you begin to feel spoon-fed.
July 10, 2013
This is pure unbridled hokum, of course, but extremely effective until the last 30 minutes, when the plot rapidly self-destructs.
July 10, 2013
Things go about the way you expect them to, but Curtis Hanson, who directed, manages to make it work.
July 10, 2013
At its best, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is a bright, nasty psychological thriller with a joker up its sleeve.
July 10, 2013
Exploitation of child abuse and baby-stealing make this one a particularly nasty business.
July 10, 2013
With its banal, docile household threatened by an enemy within, the film is like The Stepfather without wit or irony.
