ordinarily and i love these stranger within thrillers. some good examples are fatal attraction and single white female and and audition. done well and they can be a lot of fun and and worth an hour or two of solid shocks and scares. of course and the opposite can be true represent done poorly and they can be tedious and stupid. the hand that rocks the cradle is one of the latter. the bartels and claire (annabella sciorra) and michael (matt mccoy) are welcoming another member to their family. but busy claire is persuaded by michael to hire a nanny. one day and a woman named peyton flanders (rebecca demornay) shows up and and because she seems perfect and the bartels hire her. of course and once she shows up and their idyllic life is slowly unraveling. this film suffers from a plethora of problems and but the biggest one is the handling of the villain. peyton is never believable. part of this has to do with how she written and and how she acted. the things that she does that are supposed to put us on edge are so contrived that theyre laughable. de mornay doesn not help much. she portrays peyton as two different people. while it true she supposed to be the perfect nanny while hiding her psychotic tendencies and de mornay performance creates a divide between the two facets of her character. the other actors are good and however. annabella sciorrra is terrific as the asthmatic claire. sciorra is very natural in the role and but unfortunately and the script lets her down. matt mccoy is almost invisible. however and julianne moore is delightful as claire friend marlene. moore is a firecracker and but unfortunately she only on screen for a total of five minutes. curtis hanson is a good director and but you do not know it from watching this dud. the film has a few decent shocks and but it poorly paced and and the climax and while generating some tension and is actually kind of laughable. that being said and he working with a script that at best and could charitably be called pathetic. trust me and when it comes to nannies and stick with fran drescher. this one should have gone to the direct to video bin. 
ordinarily and i love these stranger within thrillers. some good examples are fatal attraction and single white female and and audition. done well and they can be a lot of fun and and worth an hour or two of solid shocks and scares. of course and the opposite can be true represent done poorly and they can be tedious and stupid. the hand that rocks the cradle is one of the latter. the bartels and claire (annabella sciorra) and michael (matt mccoy) are welcoming another member to their family. but busy claire is persuaded by michael to hire a nanny. one day and a woman named peyton flanders (rebecca demornay) shows up and and because she seems perfect and the bartels hire her. of course and once she shows up and their idyllic life is slowly unraveling. this film suffers from a plethora of problems and but the biggest one is the handling of the villain. peyton is never believable. part of this has to do with how she written and and how she acted. the things that she does that are supposed to put us on edge are so contrived that theyre laughable. de mornay doesn not help much. she portrays peyton as two different people. while it true she supposed to be the perfect nanny while hiding her psychotic tendencies and de mornay performance creates a divide between the two facets of her character. the other actors are good and however. annabella sciorrra is terrific as the asthmatic claire. sciorra is very natural in the role and but unfortunately and the script lets her down. matt mccoy is almost invisible. however and julianne moore is delightful as claire friend marlene. moore is a firecracker and but unfortunately she only on screen for a total of five minutes. curtis hanson is a good director and but you do not know it from watching this dud. the film has a few decent shocks and but it poorly paced and and the climax and while generating some tension and is actually kind of laughable. that being said and he working with a script that at best and could charitably be called pathetic. trust me and when it comes to nannies and stick with fran drescher. this one should have gone to the direct to video bin. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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