"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"

She was brilliant in this. Love that film.

And I would have given Ernie Hudson an Oscar nomination. The scene where she asks him if he's a retard- It is such a scene of sheer cruelty. I always get a lump in my throat when that tear rolls down his cheek.

A great thriller, although it's always painfully sad when retarded Ernie Hudson gets framed as a child molester. If only the movie had resolved that for the audience at the end, see him get out of prison.

The husband is the weakest link. His finest performance was as Lloyd Braun in Seinfeld. The guy is commercial actor material or Lifetime Network. How did he even land the part in a major movie?

The scene in which Peyton deals with Emma's bully should qualify her for DL sainthood.

And De Mornay is excellent — when she asks Emma which boy is the bully and gets an answer, listen to her soft but steely "O-kay."

I can totally see Melania dealing with one of Barron's bullies the same way, r4.

Too bad beautiful Rebecca didn't have more hit movies. She was an underused goddess.

I watch this every few years. Shame Rebecca couldn't capitalize on it. Julianne is great--she played bitchy, tough well.

Speaking of de Mornay and thrillers, I always thought she was underrated in the TV version of The Shining.

Loved this movie; the main couple was boring; I kinda was rooting for Peyton especially after she dealt with the bully

The audience screamed when I saw this.

It's like Fatal Attraction, where it's fun to cheer on the so-called villain because she's so much more interesting than the nuclear family she's gleefully destroying.

Fun movie carrying on the phenomenon of the early 90s. Moore is hysterical in this.

The psycho blonde phenomenon ^^^

Love it. I still say to my husband once in a while “Don’t fuck with me, retard.”

The costuming isn't subtle, but it works.

The family is always in shapeless earth tones — brown, muted green, mustard yellow — while Peyton always wears blue to match her eyes.

As she insinuates herself into their lives, more in the house turns blue (including the baby's bedding, which starts yellow but gets switched to blue). When Peyton tries to seduce the father, he's wearing a faintly blue shirt, and when she kills Julianne Moore, Seriously, Marlene has switched from black suits to muted blue.

[quote]A great thriller, although it's always painfully sad when retarded Ernie Hudson gets framed as a child molester. If only the movie had resolved that for the audience at the end, see him get out of prison.

Ernie never went to prison. He was just returned to the community home from which he had come. But at the very end he did redeem himself by helping smite poor Rebecca DeMornay.

I thought Matt McCoy was hot

Isn't Matt McCoy gay?

DeMornay was excellent in this film, and terrific as the Vicki Morgan-inspired Flo in “An Inconvenient Woman”!

I only watch this movie for the beginning. When her Rebecca's husbands business partners steal all his money.Rebecca stands,wobbling because she is pregnant.An a lady who was in on theft attempts to help her.Rebecca's eyeroll at that woman is a classic.To me anyway.

[quote]Isn't Matt McCoy gay?

Maybe you're thinking of the Matt McCoy was in the news at one time for being the first openly gay member of the Iowa Legislature.

The actor Matt is long married & has 3 kids.

R20, I don’t recall the husband’s business partners were stealing the money, what I recall is that his estate was frozen because of all the lawsuits from the patients he molested.

Love this film. But for a long time I thought it was a made-for-TV movie. It just looks very cheaply made.

For some reason, I always get [italic]The Hand That Rocks the Cradle[/italic] confused with the equally tense [italic]Sleeping With the Enemy,[/italic] which starred Julia Roberts as a lady being stalked by her psycho OCD husband, played by Patrick Bergin. The films were released in 1992 and 1991, respectively. If you liked one, you're bound to like the other. Both rely on suspense and twists, rather than grue and gore.

R24 The score to this film reminds me of Jerry Goldsmith's work on Sleeping with the enemy. I listen to both quite often. It's oddly relaxing.

If you like Demornay in this, you'll enjoy her performance in Mother's Day.

You're absolutely right about rooting for Peyton because of the snooze-fest couple. I just wished she didn't kill Moore's character - death via greenhouse roof collapse. Lol.

I like the porn parody “The Hand That Cradles the Cock.”

I've loved this movie since I snuck in while my parents were watching it on TV when I was a kid. Rebecca DeMornay is such a great icy bitch goddess. I think she could have gotten an Oscar nom for this. She's perfection in this role and I can't imagine anyone playing it better. There's something so chilling about her monologue to Sciorra where she says "I firmly believe that what goes around comes around."

Julianne Moore is fucking hilarious in this and I'm shocked she never really played more types like this, because she's great at it. She's known these days for underplaying sullen housewives and wallowing in misery, but she's hysterical in this movie.

Julianne Moore's hilarious driving scene through Seattle traffic, with her bitch business suit and ciggy.

"What is this, a PARADE? Let's GO!"

[quote]"What is this, a PARADE? Let's GO!"

I love it. I'm going to use it!

I just watched this. Annabella Sciarra is such a frau in this.Peyton could give Michael what he really needed.

Demornay's career may have been negatively affected by her father's alleged association with white supremacists.

It’s amazing how Rebecca’a career didn’t take off like Julianne’s - especially considering how Rebecca was more famous at that time. I think the her taking part in the awful TV movie version of the Shining ruined her career.

John de Lancie was great as the creepy doctor. I would have been out of there the second that scumbag started talking about rainstorms.

Did she at least win an MTV Movie Award for this?

Are you a RETARD?

Yeah, these types of movies were fun and very popular in the early 90s. Single White Female and Pacific Heights were similar. You'd have an unhinged lunatic, seemingly perfect at first, infiltrate a loving family and slowly proceed to fuck up that family's existence. Fatal Attraction in 1987 paved the way for this genre. Seems to be Lifetime's go-to movie formula even today. As for De Mornay, she was great in this movie. I also loved her in Identity. Man, that was a fun flick.

Bless you, R17. Matt McCoy was hot as fuck in this.

You have a shoe heel coming at you from the left and shovel coming at you from the right and you have to make a split second decision. Who do you do - Matt McCoy or Steven Webber?

R29 "sullen Housewives and wallowing in misery " Yes! Her choices are always classy but sooo boring. She was fantastic as a psycho bitch actress in Maps to the stars. She should choose more of those types of roles.

Don’t fuck with me, retard.

I crushed hard on Matt McCoy in this!

Sadly, he has not aged well...

Lifetime made 10,000 cheap remakes of this film. "Bad Nanny", "Evil Nanny", "The Wrong Nanny", "Wicked Nanny", etc. because you know, quality and originality.

Wow, Matt really did not age well.

I think De Mornay is very underrated. Excellent in Risky Business, The Trip to Bountiful, but this is probably her tour-de-force and the performance she'll be remembered for. It's a shame she couldn't capitalize on this film. She did get some leading parts again after this film - movies with Antonio Banderas and Don Johnson - but they were flops and her career declined again.

However it did help revive her career after the flop of the And God Created Woman remake.

Julliane Moore's best line in the film:

"MotherFuckin' A"

When she finds the tea on Peyton Flanders/Mrs. Mott.