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 Release Date: 1992 Tagline: [The Hand that Rocks the Cradle]…is the hand that rules the world. Director: Curtis Hanson Writer: Amanda Silver
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| Plot Synopsis by Justin: Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra, who apparently has always looked that old), six months pregnant with her second child, is married to Michael (Matt McCoy, always a mark of quality), a nice man with a beard, with whom she has a little daughter named Emma. She goes to a new gynecologist, Q (seriously, John de Lancie plays the pervert), and he molests her. She sues him and he kills himself. His wife Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay), also pregnant, miscarries when she finds out that the suicide has voided Q’s insurance. So much for the Q Continuum’s universal coverage. She decides to get revenge on Claire and six months after the suicide insinuates herself into the house as a nanny, attempting to turn everyone against poor Claire. From breastfeeding the baby so it no longer accepts his own mother’s breast, to framing Solomon (Ernie Hudson), the magical fence-building simpleton, for child molestation, to attempting to seduce Michael, there’s nothing Peyton won’t do. Through the whole film, Peyton is cold, subtle and calculating, and it’s working. Then, Claire figures out the score and pops Peyton in the face, making Peyton go cuckoo bananas. Like the bad guy in every early ‘90s normal-person-goes-wacko movie, bitch seriously flips her lid. In the end Claire has to shank Peyton with a kitchen knife and drop her on a white picket fence. The symbolism is not subtle. | |||||||||||||||
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