{"id":81381,"date":"2025-10-16T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:54:11","slug":"how-to-watch-the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81381\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch The Hand that Rocks the Cradle in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Hanson\u2019s 1992 thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flicks.com.au\/movie\/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hand That Rocks the Cradle<\/a> has such a solid and lurid premise that I\u2019m genuinely surprised it\u2019s taken over 30 years to get a remake. Times being what they are, what was once a reliable theatrical programmer\u2014this original made a sweet $140m theatrically\u2014is now going straight to streaming.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch The Hand that Rocks the Cradle in Australia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flicks.com.au\/movie\/the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hand that Rocks the Cradle<\/a> is streaming exclusively in Australia on Disney+ from October 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>What is The Hand that Rocks the Cradle about?<\/p>\n<p>A young couple with a newborn baby hire the most helpful nanny in the world, only to discover she\u2019s a mad bunny boiler out to destroy their lives for some slight back in the day.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flicks.com.au\/movie\/fatal-attraction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fatal Attraction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flicks.com.au\/movie\/single-white-female\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Single White Female<\/a>, and this packed \u2019em in a few decades back, each pitting a scorned woman against the sacred bond of the American nuclear family. Certainly, it\u2019s a sensational as a supermarket tabloid, but this sort of thing speaks to some deeply held societal anxieties. And it can make for very compelling and tense drama.<\/p>\n<p>The cast of The Hand that Rocks the Cradle<\/p>\n<p>Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ra\u00fal Castillo are Miguel and Caitlyn Morales, our young couple, with newcomer Mileiah Vega as Emma Morales, their daughter; Maika Monroe is Polly Murphy, our psycho nanny; Martin Starr is Stewart; with Riki Lindhome and Shannon Cochran in support. This is just a hunch, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Riki Lindhome is playing a version of the BFF character that Julianne Moore played in the original film.<\/p>\n<p>The Hand that Rocks the Cradle trailer<\/p>\n<p>Why we\u2019re excited about The Hand that Rocks the Cradle<\/p>\n<p>As long as this thing cleaves to its trashy genre roots, we should be in for a real fun time. \u201cFun\u201d of course meaning creepy and intense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curtis Hanson\u2019s 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle has such a solid and lurid premise that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-81381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}