Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

paulclaassen A psychological thriller at its best. Rebecca De Mornay is very good as the sweet, sensitive nanny, yet so disturbed at the same time. This is essentially a story about revenge gone wrong. Rebecca plays a woman who poses as a nanny to avenge the woman she believes is responsible for her husband's suicide and her miscarriage as a result of what happened. In the process she tries to take everything from Claire (played by Sciorra). Annabella Sciorra was ok in her role, but the way she used the asthma pumps were just not believable. Anyone and everyone who has or knows about asthma will immediately know the pumps will provide no relief whatsoever the way she handles them. Despite that, this was a very good film.

Parker Lewis I was sad to hear of the recent death of Curtis Hanson at 71, and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle rocks big time. Rebecca De Mornay was robbed in not getting an Oscar nomination. Her menacing nature without saying a word was captivating, and it's hard to imagine any other actress playing the babysitter.Good to see Matt McCoy move on from Police Academy to be the leading man in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The scene where Rebecca's character almost seduces Matt's character was tense, and I do wonder if the DVD has a deleted scene where he did succumb to her wiles, and who knows what.Annabella Sciorra also was a standout in this, as was Ernie Hudson, who was my favorite Ghostbuster by the way.

Leofwine_draca The potentially interesting theme of this story - a nanny integrates herself into a family to get revenge for the suicide of her husband - is wasted due to some flat direction and clichéd situations which threaten to sink the thing as a whole. Thankfully there are some good moments in this mess, but otherwise it's all a bit obvious and easy to foretell. In some ways it feels like a television movie, due to the fact that there's plenty of sugary sentimentalism, and it could have been a lot tougher.Ultimately, though, the film comes across as a bit of a disappointment due to the excellent reception it received when released in cinemas. I should think that good films were few and far between back in '92, and the public lapped up anything that was halfway decent, such as this. Rebecca De Mornay gives a very good performance as the psychopath from hell, nicely subtle too, well that is until the over the top finale where she gets to wield a spade and break legs. Annabella Sciorra just annoyed me though, coming across as a) an idiot and b) very weak indeed. And I was sick of her asthma attacks by the end of the film. Matt McCoy is okay as the husband, but is given little to do, and it's Ernie Hudson (GHOSTBUSTERS) who shines as a mentally-handicapped handyman, who couldn't hurt a fly, yet gets blamed for harbouring sexual thoughts about the young daughter. Thankfully he sticks around and comes through at the end. Julianne Moore makes the most of her appearance as a feisty old flame of the husband, while STAR TREK's John De Lancie is the creepy perverted doctor.While there are a few good suspenseful set pieces (the greenhouse scene being one of them), and lots of clever little mystery twists, unfortunately it all comes across as polished yet flawed, due to the family-orientated, over sentimental script. THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE is good fun, but not the film that it might have been, or, indeed, that you might hope it to be.

jadavix "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" is a fairly formulaic thriller that moves along well enough but is ultimately forgettable.The premise is the most interesting part: a woman complains about sexual harassment at the hands of a doctor and the doctor commits suicide. The doctor's widow, in her shock, loses her baby and is given an emergency hysterectomy.She insinuates herself into the family of the woman who made the complaint, bent on revenge, and begins trying to tear the family apart.The movie feels very familiar, with the concerned friend who realises the truth about the villainess and tries to stop her, but ends up dead, and the way she goes into full psycho mode at the end of it, becoming violent when her more insidious techniques fail her.This may not be a problem for most people, but the issue is the way it glosses over certain plot details, confident that we're so used to what we're seeing that we won't notice. Eg., how do both the concerned friend and the mother herself work out the truth about the evil nanny? They find out somehow, but it's not really explained. Worse still is the way the intellectually disabled handyman, played by Ernie Hudson, comes back to save the day. Why? And why at that moment exactly, where he is most needed?What's worse than a formulaic thriller is one that plays a nanny to you as well. The movie won't let you feel anything too negative. It coddles you, which is not the way a thriller should behave.