"Actor: Mitchell Laurance"

• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being. Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face--literally--after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it--she's the doc's widow. The movie follows a tried and trusted formula, with the audience in on everything. However, the story does surprise us in intense and intimate ways. The visit to the obstetrician is one of the creepiest moments in the film. You definitely hear the voice of writer Amanda Silver in a plot concerned with the vulnerabilities of a family, a newborn, a marriage. Since we know so much up front, there is an overall lack of inventiveness in the plot machinations. It may not jolt us, but De Mornay does. It's unsettling to watch someone who appears so attractive and who behaves so kindly suddenly reveal hideous psychopathic tendencies. Restraining herself from going over the top, she instead oozes such malevolence you'll want to shudder. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Deadly Pursuits | DVD | (16/02/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman helps a young boy to find his father but finds that the search could just turn deadly...

• The Stepfather 2 | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The family-slaughtering serial killer known as Jerry Blake has survived the stabbing by his stepdaughter and has been committed to a psychiatric hospital in Puget Sound. By playing on the new psychiatrist's naive desire to help he makes an escape. He then sets up a new identity as Gene Clifford whose death he reads in the newspaper and moves into the new Palm Meadows suburb which is being touted as the perfect family environment. There he pursues divorced realtor Carol Grayland and

• Syngenor | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Product of science - nightmare from hell.

• Conspiracy Of Love | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £1.02 (34.34%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young girl and her grandfather are torn apart by her parents divorce. She finally makes a stand for herself which lays the groundwork for mending the fractured ties.

• Conspiracy Of Love | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A young girl and her grandfather are torn apart by her parents divorce. She finally makes a stand for herself which lays the groundwork for mending the fractured ties.