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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)

Overview

Suburban couple Caitlin and Miguel hire seemingly sweet Polly to take care of their newborn baby. But Polly's true motives have little to do with singing lullabies...


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Race Swap: Yes

Viewer Rating
5.2

Overview

Suburban couple Caitlin and Miguel hire seemingly sweet Polly to take care of their newborn baby. But Polly's true motives have little to do with singing lullabies...


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing class privilege, traditional gender roles, and the idealized American family through a contemporary feminist lens, aligning with the director's known political concerns.

The movie incorporates significant DEI elements through its intentional character design, giving a lead role a Hispanic surname and featuring a multicultural cast. Its narrative further engages with DEI themes by challenging traditional gender stereotypes, exploring generational trauma, and critiquing class tensions, privilege, and power imbalances within contemporary social dynamics.

Secondary

The film integrates LGBTQ+ identities into its characters' backgrounds and relationships, notably with a queer antagonist and a protagonist with a queer past. This approach adds complexity and emotional depth, avoiding stereotypes and making these identities integral to the narrative's themes of trust and betrayal without being the central conflict or reduced to plot devices.

The 2025 remake features multiple characters whose race differs from their counterparts in the 1992 original. The Bartel family (originally white) is now the Morales family (Latino), and the character Solomon (originally Black) is now Stewart (white).

Current information for 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle' (2025) does not detail any transsexual characters or themes. Consequently, an assessment of the film's portrayal of transsexual individuals or the trans community cannot be provided based on available plot or character analyses.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Based on the available information for the 2025 film, no characters are identified whose on-screen gender differs from their established gender in source material or historical record. All listed main characters maintain their original canonical gender.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.2

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.3
The Movie Database logo
5.7

Critic Ratings

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4.5
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N/A

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