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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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Sex & Nudity

A woman is molested by a male doctor in an examination (her bare breasts are visible).

A woman's bare breasts are visible through her nightgown after she has been outside in the rain.

Violence & Gore

A man shoots himelf in the head off-screen (we hear the gunshot).

A woman has a miscarriage (a lot of blood is shown).

A woman in a bathroom stall goes into a fit of anger, ripping several papers apart, and then beats against the walls and door of the stall with a plunger.

A woman grabs a young boy by the arm and holds him against a wall (he screams in pain), threatening to "rip his head off" if he ever bullies a young girl again.

A woman slaps a man in the face.

A greenhouse roof collapses and breaks, sending several shards of glass down onto a woman and killing her.

A woman discovers another woman's bloody corpse in a greenhouse; she then has a violent asthma attack and breaks into her house, trying to use inhalers, but they are empty; she wheezes for several moments until she finally collapses to the floor (we see her in a hospital later).

A woman punches another woman in the face, knocking her over a table (a bit of blood is visible near the woman's lip).

A woman hits a man in the face with a shovel, knocking him over a staircase railing to the floor below (we later hear that his legs are broken and see some blood on his forehead).

A woman violently swings a shovel at another woman several times, hitting and breaking various objects; the other woman holds up a chair to defend herself, but the chair breaks; she is then hit on the back with the shovel and falls to the floor, unconscious.

A young girl locks a woman in a room from the outside; the woman breaks through the door with a fireplace poker and opens it, also hitting and knocking over several other objects with the poker; she then goes to an attic where a man is helping two children escape (she is planning to kidnap them); another woman walks in, brandishing a kitchen knife, but the other woman knocks it out of her hand with the poker and throws her to the floor; she revives and throws the woman with the poker against a wall and slams her head twice on the floor, but is grabbed by the face and thrown aside; the woman with the poker raises it to beat her, but the man grabs her hand; in retaliation, she hits him with it on the shoulder, but the other woman stands up and shoves her through a glass window; she rolls off the roof and lands on a fence below, which impales her (blood is shown on her mouth and on the ground beneath her).

Profanity

Some strong language (e.g. "f-ck" [once used in a sexual manner], "b-tch") is infrequently used, as well as some mild profanities and sexual references/innuendo.

Adults drink alcoholic beverages and smoke cigarettes in a few scenes.

There are several extremely terrifying scenes in this film, especially throughout the last fifteen minutes. These last few scenes involve a woman making her final attempt to kill a family and keep you on your toes with your heart pounding in your head (extremely intense).

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Rated R for terror, violence, a scene of sexual molestation, and for language.

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