As the poem goes, the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. Rebecca De Mornay stars as the widow of a doctor who takes his own life after being accused of inappropriately touching his female clients, and she decides that her hand should be the one to rock the cradle of the one who caused her so much pain.
After waiting a few months for things to settle down, she insinuates herself as a nanny to the one who started the whole mess, and at first things go swimmingly. But slowly they start to fall apart. Mentally disabled helper Solomon (played excellently by Ernie Hudson) sees her breast feeding the baby that she is supposed to be watching, and she makes short work of him by planting some evidence to get him kicked out.
Once she gets Solomon out of the way, it's pretty well clear sailing, so she moves on to the husband, who is apprehensive at first, but before long he finds himself rapidly becoming stuck in her world where she wants to become the woman of this new house. That's when the actual woman of the house steps up and takes her out.
Along the way there's plenty of suspense, and the movie is pretty well-written all around, and all of the actors do a fine job of executing as well.
The movie is Rated R, and contains nudity and adult language, but most of the content is just adult in nature. You'll definitely want to keep the kids away from this one, but it's worth it. Though the movie is a few years old, it's better than most of what's out there now.
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