Read more about Peyton Flanders at: Wikipedia Official Site: Disney (Hollywood Pictures) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is a 1992 American thriller about a vengeful nanny out to destroy a naïve woman and steal her family. The film was directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, and Matt McCoy. The original music score was composed by Graeme Revell. Claire Bartel (Annabella Sciorra) is mother to daughter Emma (Madeline Zima) and pregnant with her second child. At a routine checkup, Claire is molested by an obstetrician, Dr. Victor Mott (John de Lancie), who is replacing her retired doctor. Claire tells her husband, Michael (Matt McCoy), about being sexually violated and the couple decide to report the incident to the authorities. Four more women come forward to corroborate the Bartels' story and Dr. Mott commits suicide. Due to the stress brought on by her husband's death (which has also brought on considerable financial problems), pregnant Mrs. Mott (Rebecca De Mornay) faints, loses her baby, and has an emergency hysterectomy. Mrs. Mott blames Claire for her personal losses and financial ruin. Months pass and Claire gives birth to a boy, Joey. The Bartels have hired a worker named Solomon (Ernie Hudson), a man with a developmental disability, to perform some handywork around the house, such as building a new fence. Michael is also insistent that they look for a nanny to help with the children. Claire, in the process of building a greenhouse in the couple's backyard so that she can start a side plant business, is reluctant - believing she is perfectly capable of doing both as well as being wary of hiring a complete stranger to take care of Joey. Nevertheless, Claire acquiesces despite her reservations. Mrs. Mott, now under the pseudonym Peyton Flanders, applies for the position and is hired after deliberately placing the back of one of Claire's earrings (which was constantly falling off) into baby Joey's mouth and feigning the baby's rescue from a potential choking. Peyton begins to subtly terrorize the family in a delusional attempt to replace Claire. She begins breastfeeding Joey in secret (which causes him to no longer take his own mother's milk), encourages Emma to keep secrets from her mother, tempts Michael with her sexuality and plants a seed in Claire's head that Michael may be having an affair with close friend and former girlfriend, Marlene Craven (Julianne Moore). Peyton furthers this notion by suggesting that he and Marlene plan a surprise birthday party for Claire, thus leading to Marlene and Michael having to meet in secret. Marlene early on warns Claire to not let Peyton get too close to the family, quoting the line, "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world" from the poem "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" by William Ross Wallace.
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