Mommy is a 1995 low budget thriller starring Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.She achieved success as a child actress, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed...

 as a mother who is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann, Rachel Lemieux. McCormack is best known for her role as Rhoda Penmark in the 1956 movie The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed (film)

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American horror-thrillerfilm directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed. The play was adapted by John Lee Mahin for the screenplay of the film...

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Plot

Mrs. Sterling (Patty McCormack) is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann (Rachel Lemieux) so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" award again, she solves the problem by murdering the teacher who didn't recommend her for it.

She dismisses the killing as inconsequential ("a minor accident"), but the homicide detective assigned to the case suspects her immediately, and an insurance investigator who also suspects her tries to get close to Jessica Ann to find out what really happened.

Cast

• Patty McCormack
  Patty McCormack
  Patty McCormack is an American actress with a career in theater, films and television.She achieved success as a child actress, and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Bad Seed...
  
   ... Mommy/Mrs. Sterling
• Sarah Jane Miller ... Jolene Jones
• Rachel Lemieux ... Jessica Ann
• Jason Miller ... Lt. March
• Brinke Stevens
  Brinke Stevens
  Brinke Stevens is an American actress, model and writer.-Life and career:Born in San Diego, California, Stevens has studied several foreign languages, including Esperanto, and gained a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in Marine...
  
   ... Beth
• Michael Cornelison ... Mark Jeffries
• Mark Spellman ... Detective
• Majel Barrett
  Majel Barrett
  Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an American actress and producer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series...
  
   ... Mrs. Jeffries
• Mickey Spillane
  Mickey Spillane
  Frank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally...
  
   ... Attorney Neal Ekhardt
• Marian Wald ... the Principal
• Janelle Vanerstrom ... Substitute teacher
• Judith Meyers ... Hallway teacher
• Nathan Collins ... Gleeful kid
• Tom Castillo ... Ambulance attendant #1
• Tom Summit ... Ambulance attendant #2