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May 29, 2002
Peyton Flanders
A woman is married to a successful doctor, an OBGYN to be exact. She's incredibly happy too because they're about to have their first baby. Suddenly, the doctor gets slammed with a number of lawsuits, claiming he sexually assaulted his patients. One of them was Claire (Annabella Sciorra). The doctor commits suicide, and his wife, played by Rebecca De Mornay, has a miscarriage.
This woman becomes obsessed with vengeance for the deaths of her husband and baby. Passing herself off as prospective nanny, Peyton Flanders, she gets a job working for Claire's family. Soon enough, she has slipped her way into more intimate parts of the family, befriending the couple's daughter Emma, making advances towards the husband Michael (Matt McCoy), and - get this - breastfeeding the youngest baby. Good grief!
It's rare that women have the chance to play a part so deliciously evil these days and De Mornay is pretty incredible. Peyton meets her demise in a particularly villainous way, but not after she's thoroughly terrorized the family in her own seductive, clever ways.
INTELLIGENCE - 6: Made some clever moves, but too many old habits resurfaced and tipped off the good guys.
POWER - 5: Not particularly physically powerful.
VILENESS - 8: Acted nice, buy terrorized anyone in her way. Breast feeding someone else's baby though... that's low.
SWAY - 8: Acted very sweet, so everyone was really taken in by her, especially Claire's daughter and husband.
PURITY - 9: So obsessed by revenge that she was willing to go to any length to take Claire's place in the family.
PHYSICAL - 6: Her beauty helped her get in good with Michael.
TOTAL: 42
Posted by Destro at May 29, 2002 05:17 PM