Bad Seed

Precocious 8-year-old Rhoda Penmark (John Cameron Mitchell), cute but obsessive, would kill to be the first at everything. Literally. Bad Seed is a classic thriller about a mother who begins to suspect that her perfect child might just be a perfect killer, discovering a buried secret that suggests cold-bloodedness may run in the family. Cynthia Nixon brings a fun, modern perspective to the question of whether or not we truly are born bad.