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THE BAD SEED
Mark Daigler
1985
The 1985 TV movie
The Bad Seed is the second film version of Maxwell Anderson's 1956
Broadway play. Carrie Wells plays Rhoda Penmark, a 9-year-old girl who is
perfection itself--unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing
recent incidents have led Rhoda's mother Christine (Blair Brown) to
suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she
herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced
that sweet little Rhoda is a "bad seed"--an inherent killer who feels no
remorse because she doesn't know any better. David Carradine co-stars as a
moronic handyman who comes too close to Rhoda's secret to live, while Lynn
Redgrave essays the old Eileen Heckart role of the distraught, eternally
inebriated mother of a little boy who was "accidentally" drowned while on
a picnic with Rhoda. Originally aired February 7, 1985, this version of
The Bad Seed avoids the many cop-outs in the 1956 theatrical film version
by retaining Maxwell Anderson's ironic final scene.
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