The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
A grieving mother assumes the role of a trusted nanny to infiltrate a suburban family, intent on avenging her loss while endangering everything they hold dear.
“Trust is her weapon. Innocence her opportunity. Revenge her only desire.”
Synopsis
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn
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Principal cast & crew: 19
These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.
Why a floor?
This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.
Craft leads on file
Edited by John F LinkShot by Robert ElswitScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Edward Pisoni
Box Office
1992 · Box office
💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.5× its budget
Why 2.5×?
Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).
Worldwide gross
$88.0M
Opening weekend: $7.7M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.
Opening week (7-day): $10.0M — 11% of its US & Canada run.
Peak 766 theaters
Also known as
- Die Hand an der Wiegede
- La mano que mece la cunaes
- La Main sur le berceaufr
- La mano sulla cullait
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Cast & Crew
19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Annabella Sciorra
as Claire Bartel
Rebecca De Mornay
as Peyton Flanders
Matt Mccoy
as Michael Bartel
Ernie Hudson
as Solomon
Julianne Moore
as Marlene Craven
Madeline Zima
as Emma Bartel
John De Lancie
as Dr. Victor Mott
Kevin Skousen
as Marty Craven
Jennifer Von Mayrhauser
as … Costume Design
Mitchell Laurance
as Lawyer
Justin Zaremby
as Schoolyard Bully
Directors
1Writers
1Producers
1Other crew
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