Spoonful Of Sugar is a weird, weird movie. It's about a family hiring a babysitter named Millicent who takes daily doses of LSD, as some unusual form of alternative psychological treatment to look after their extremely troubled and violent son.
I've seen online other people have compared it to the hand that rocks the cradle, and I suppose there are some similarities but the difference here is that every single member of that family, in fact every single person in the film is a reprehensible lunatic.
Its a hard one to give a rating to because the acting in it is actually very good, particularly from Morgan Saylor as the depraved babysitter, but the film has some pacing issues and seems like for a very long time that it's going nowhere. It's unusual enough that that's not a huge problem though. So I can say that I was engaged throughout most of it but the only real takeaway for me was that lead performance.
It doesn't lean into the LSD aspect of the film enough , which is the most interesting part of the whole premise and the entire reason I started watching it in the first place. I was expecting an LSD fuelled ride into hell, something along the lines of Gasper Noe's Climax but mixed with the hand that rocks the cradle or fatal attraction.
Overall, I think its ok,
but if it wasn't for Morgan Saylor's performance I don't think I would have continued watching it.
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