The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) Poster

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Certification

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A reference to a blow-job.
  • A married man takes his wet shirt and a woman pats him dry. She tries to seduce him but he rebuffed her advance.
  • A pregnant woman is sexually molested by a male doctor during an examination: he opens her gown (revealing the sides of a bare breasts and nipple) and caresses her breasts; he removes his glove and inserts his hand into her vagina (nothing is visible) while caressing her abdomen with the other hand.
  • A woman's bare breast is visible while she breastfeeds a baby. On one instance her nipple is visible, on another it is not.
  • A woman's bare breasts are visible through her nightgown after she has been outside in the rain.

Violence & Gore

  • Infrequent rather than constant, but sometimes graphic
  • A man shoots himelf in the head offscreen (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 f*****g 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.

Profanity

  • A few sexual references.
  • 1 anatomical term.
  • 2 mild obscenities.
  • 2 derogatory terms for the mentally challenged.
  • Twice, "God".
  • 4 uses of the F word, one of which is used sexually.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • While two couples are at dinner they drink wine and one man and woman smoke cigarettes.
  • Several people drink in a bar, and a man and woman smoke cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A few jump-scares.
  • The movie has a tense and dark tone throughout.
  • The deaths may be intense for some people.
  • The subjects of sexual assault may be intense for some viewers.
  • The suicide may be difficult for some viewers.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man is accused of sexually molesting a young girl after her mother finds her panties in his drawer, though he was framed.

Violence & Gore

  • 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).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman collapses and suffers a miscarriage.

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