The Bad Seed is a movie directed by Paul Wendkos in 1985 and based on the play Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson, first published in 1956. The movie features Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, and others.
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Book by William March
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Storyline
Nine-year-old Rhoda is the only child of Kenneth and Christine Penmark. Kenneth Penmark goes away on business, leaving Christine and Rhoda at home. Christine begins to notice that Rhoda is acting strangely after one of her classmates mysteriously dies, and eventually makes a horrible discovery: Rhoda killed the boy, and will almost certainly kill again.
Movie vs Book
Year
1985
Minutes
100
Movie Rate
5.50
Source: IMDb
Year
1956
Pages
84
Book Rate
7.92
S: Goodreads
Book
Bad Seed
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