IMDb plot summary: A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, and Eileen Heckart.
It's a good concept and a mostly decent script, aside from a very abrupt ending, but the acting comes across as very dated and could use a bit more subtlety. (Though of course that's what got all the Oscar nominations.) This is a film that might benefit from a remake.
3 stars.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Bad Seed > No Country for Old Men
The Bad Seed < Baby Driver
The Bad Seed > The Illusionist (2006)
The Bad Seed < Auntie Mame
The Bad Seed > Hamlet (2009)
The Bad Seed < A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
The Bad Seed < Josie and the Pussycats
The Bad Seed > Away We Go
The Bad Seed > Frances Ha
The Bad Seed < Sleight
Final spot: #937 out of 2774.
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