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Raising Cain (1992)

R  |   |  Crime, Drama, Thriller  |  7 August 1992 (USA)
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Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's seemingly obsessive concern over the upbringing of their daughter. Her own ... See full summary »

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Jenny Nix, wife of eminent child psychologist Carter Nix, becomes increasingly concerned about her husband's seemingly obsessive concern over the upbringing of their daughter. Her own adulterous affair with an old flame, however, causes her to neglect her motherly duties until a spate of local kidnapings forces her to accept the possibility that he may be trying to recreate the twisted mind-control experiments of his discreditied psychologist father. Written by Ross Horsley <ics6rh@leeds.ac.uk>

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Rated R for sexuality, language and terror violence | See all certifications »

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The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan said the film is "...a reworking of Michael Powell's brilliantly twisted thriller Peeping Tom (1960), with elements of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and [director Brian] De Palma's own Sisters (1973) thrown in..." See more »

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Carter: I know what you're going to do! It's a bad thing and I'm going to tell!
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*** 1/2 out of ****
1 December 2002 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

De Palma's tongue-in-cheek twist on his own thriller formula works mainly as an inside joke for his fans - if you're looking for a standard formulaic suspense thriller, watch something else. Lithgow puts on a show with several superbly over-the-top performances. Some parts are scary, some suspenseful, and some hilarious, although they all have the mark of a virtuoso filmmaker - and they succeed because he doesn't take them seriously for a second. For De Palma fans, they don't get any more entertaining than this. However, non-fans might not get it.


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