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Learning
Difficulties Minor 
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TITLE |
Hand
That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992) |
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DISABILITY |
Learning
difficulty General Asthma |
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NOTES |
A pregnant
woman visiting her doctor for a check-up is |
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worried by
the way he puts his hands on her. She complains |
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and the
consequence is that the doctor shoots himself. His |
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wife who is
also pregnant collapses has a miscarriage and |
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also has a
hysterectomy. The scene then jumps forward 6 |
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The widow,
Peyton, (Mornay) plans revenge on the woman, |
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Claire, (Sciorra)
who she sees as responsible for her |
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miscarriage.
So she applies for the job as nanny to Sciorra's |
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baby. A
rather odd touch here is that Sciorra wants a nanny |
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not so she
can go to work but because she wants to build a |
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greenhouse.
In the meantime she has employed a black |
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handyman,
Soloman, from the Better Day Society which |
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helps the
disabled. He comes first to fix a fence but they keep him on
because they like him. |
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Naturally
Peyton doesn't get on with Soloman especially when he sees her
breastfeeding Claire's baby. I'm not sure if the chronology
fits here which would allow Peyton to have still the milk. Never
mind this is all part of Peyton's fiendish plan and de Mornay is
very good at being the charming, attractive nanny and
the scheming murderess. |
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She gets
Soloman sacked by making false charges of child |
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interference, her plan to kill Claire in her greenhouse kills
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Claire's
friend who has just discovered who Peyton is, and |
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she tries to
seduce Claire's husband. |
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From the
beginning we've been introduced to Claire's asthma and seen how
she quickly gets out of breath. Peyton takes advantage of
this by empyting all her nebulisers and almost succeeds in
killing her. |
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The first
time I saw this film I dismissed out of hand. The |
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second time
the different threads and characters were |
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carefully
worked out. And this being a film which mainly |
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concentrates
on the women in it the acting of de Mornay and |
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