History Film / TheHandThatRocksTheCradle

* LackOfEmpathy: ''Good lord''. Any doubts of Mrs. Mott showing even just a ''little sense'' of being morally empathetic by her own immoral actions are tossed right out the window when she is [[spoiler:smiling at herself in a mirror and humming in a joyful tone while ''emptying out all of Claire's asthma inhalers''. Not to mention this was right after she didn't have much of a reaction to [[spoiler: witnessing Marlene's death at her hands]].

* LackofEmpathy: ''Good lord''. Any doubts of Mrs. Mott showing even just a ''little sense'' of being morally empathetic by her own immoral actions are tossed right out the window when she is [[spoiler:smiling at herself in a mirror and humming in a joyful tone while ''emptying out all of Claire's asthma inhalers''. Not to mention this was right after she didn't have much of a reaction to [[spoiler: witnessing Marlene's death at her hands]].

* HateSink: Subverted with Mrs. Mott due to her [[FreudianExcuse sympathetic background]]. Putting that aside, just ''look'' at some of her facial expressions and body language, and you will want to punch her like Claire, the asthma emptying scene being a wonderful example.

* HateSink: Subverted with Mrs. Mott due to her [[FruedianExcuse sympathetic background]]. Putting that aside, just ''look'' at some of her facial expressions and body language, and you will want to punch her like Claire, the asthma emptying scene being a wonderful example.

* FreudianExcuse: Mrs. Mott wants revenge against Claire because she holds her responsible for ruining her life by reporting her husband to the police, which led to his suicide, the death of their baby, her hysterectomy, and the loss of their home and assets.

* FreudianExcuse: Mrs. Mott wants revenge against Claire because she holds her responsible for ruining her life by reporting her husband to the police, which led to his suicide, the death of their baby, and the loss of their home.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Mrs. Mott not only lost her husband and her home, but miscarried her unborn baby - and thanks to the resulting hysterectomy, she can’t have another.

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* {{Yandere}}: Implied to be the case with Mrs. Mott. [[SkewedPriorities She stands up for her husband ever after finding out what dirty scumbag he was]], and tries to take the kids and start a new life with them in the climax.

* TheSociopath: Even though she's more of a misguided and tragic villain than outright evil, it's very hard to believe that losing her family and wealth over another woman's allegations of her husband being a sexual abuser is what made Mrs. Mott into a {{Consummate Liar}} and {{Manipulative Bastard}}. An early scene shows her being aggressively hostile and speaking vulgar language to "protect" Emma from a boy who bullied her. This was something that had nothing to do with her actual revenge against Claire in itself, which suggested that Mott wasn't the nicest person to begin with.

* TheSociopath: Even though she's more of a misguided and tragic villain than outright evil, it's very hard to believe that losing her family and wealth over another woman's allegations of her husband being a sexual abuser is what made Mrs. Mott into a {{Consummate Liar}} and {{Manipulative Bastard}}. An early scene shows her being aggressively hostile and speaking vulgar language to ''protect'' Emma from a boy who bullied her. This was something that had nothing to do with her actual revenge against Claire in itself, which suggested that Mott wasn't the nicest person to begin with.

* TheSociopath: Even though she's more of a misguided and tragic villain than outright evil, it's very hard to believe that losing her family and wealth over another woman's allegations of her husband being a sexual abuser is what made Mrs. Mott into a {{Consumate Liar}} and {{Manipulative Bastard}}. An early scene shows her being aggressively hostile and speaking vulgar language to ''protect'' Emma from a boy who bullied her. This was something that had nothing to do with her actual revenge against Claire in itself, which suggested that Mott wasn't the nicest person to begin with.

* TheSociopath: Even though she's more of a misguided and tragic villain than outright evil, it's very hard to believe that losing her family and wealth over another woman's allegations of her husband being a sexual abuser is what made Mrs. Mott into a {{ConsumateLiar}} and {{ManipulativeBastard}}. An early scene shows her being aggressively hostile and speaking vulgar language to ''protect'' Emma from a boy who bullied her. This was something that had nothing to do with her actual revenge against Claire in itself, which suggested that Mott wasn't the nicest person to begin with.

* TheSociopath: Even though she's more of a misguided and tragic villain than outright evil, it's very hard to believe that losing her family and wealth over another woman's allegations of her husband being a sexual abuser is what made Mrs. Mott into a [[ConsumateLiar]] and [[ManipulativeBastard]]. An early scene shows her being aggressively hostile and speaking vulgar language to a boy who bullied Emma on school grounds, something which had nothing to do with her actual revenge against Claire in itself, which suggested that Mott wasn't the nicest person to begin with.

* Yandere: Implied to be the case with Mrs. Mott. [[SkewedPriorities She stands up for her husband ever after finding out what dirty scumbag he was]], and tries to take the kids and start a new life with them in the climax.

* Yandere: Implied to be the case with Mrs. Mott. [[SkeweredPriorities She stands up for her husband ever after finding out what dirty scumbag he was]], and tries to take the kids and start a new life with them in the climax.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Literally since this ''is'' in fact a Disney movie (via their Hollywood Pictures division). Downplayed overall since we do see where they land: a picket fence. Noted in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'''s satire "The Ham That Robs The Cradle"[[hottip:*: ironically, Rebecca [=DeMornay=]'s performance is free of ChewingTheScenery]]: