The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is director Curtis Hanson's suburban horror story of a demented nanny bent on revenge for past wrongs. Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) was once a happily married woman, but when her doctor husband is accused of assaulting a patient and he commits suicide, her world falls ...more

There have been many movies about psychos invading the homes and overturning the domestic bliss of innocent families, but in the capable hands of Curtis Hanson, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle rises above most of its brethren. The film has the kind of determined pacing in which one scene leads logically to the next, gradually intensifying toward disaster, as Rebecca De Mornay's vengeful widow increases her secret stranglehold on the couple who accused her gynecologist husband of sexual assault, ...more