The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (film)
1992
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The movie is a creepy, unpleasant experience, made all the worse because it stars children too young to understand the horrible things we see them doing. Who in the world would want to see this movie?
The Good Son is never good enough to live up to its unsettling potential, failing to drum up much suspense and unable to make Macaulay Culkin a credible psychopath. Read Critics Reviews....
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- Joseph Ruben
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- Macaulay Culkin
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Parents need to know that the ironically titled The Good Son is an extremely tense and scary 1993 thriller that borders on the verge of horror. The twist here is the notion that a child can embody murderous evil. Despite the youth of the cast, younger viewers may find the boy's actions too disturbing. A woman….
- Joseph Ruben
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Elijah Wood, Macaulay Culkin, Wendy Crewson
As of August 2022, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film had an approval rating of 25% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's consensus stated: "The Good Son is never good enough to live up to its unsettling potential, failing to drum up much suspense and unable to make Macaulay Culkin a credible psychopath."
- $17-28 million
- September 24, 1993
- Joseph Ruben, Mary Ann Page
- Elmer Bernstein
Aug 3, 2022 · The Good Son (1993) Ending, Explained. Joseph Ruben’s (‘Sleeping with the Enemy’) 1993 psychological thriller ‘The Good Son’ is a beautifully-shot and deeply-unsettling film. Starring two of the most prominent child actors of the time, Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood, it is about the nature of evil and how looks can often be deceiving.
Sep 24, 1993 · Featured review. Good. Dark. Realistic. This is one of my favorite movies. Macaulay Culkin was excellent in this. The Good Son is about Mark (Elijah Wood), a young boy suffering in the recent loss of his mother, going to visit his aunt, uncle, and two cousins in Maine while his dad takes a business trip to Tokyo.
kevin_robbins 29 October 2021. The Good Son (1993) is a movie I recently rewatched on Tubi. The storyline follows a young man who recently lost his mother. His father needs to go on a business trip and thinks it would be good for the boy to stay with his aunt and uncle and their two kids near his age.
