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Release Date:
12 June 1968 (USA)
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Tagline:
Pray for Rosemary's Baby
Plot:
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 11 wins
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9 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(163 articles)
Rick Florino Talks Dolor: Lila
(From Dread Central. 4 January 2010, 3:44 PM, PST)
Roman Polanski thanks fans for support
(From Monsters and Critics. 29 December 2009, 8:05 AM, PST)
(From Dread Central. 4 January 2010, 3:44 PM, PST)
Roman Polanski thanks fans for support
(From Monsters and Critics. 29 December 2009, 8:05 AM, PST)
User Reviews:
Reassuring to fine it's every bit as good as its staunchest champions would have you believe
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Mia Farrow | ... | Rosemary Woodhouse | |
| John Cassavetes | ... | Guy Woodhouse | |
| Ruth Gordon | ... | Minnie Castevet | |
| Sidney Blackmer | ... | Roman Castevet | |
| Maurice Evans | ... | Edward 'Hutch' Hutchins | |
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | Dr. Abraham Sapirstein | |
| Victoria Vetri | ... | Terry Gionoffrio (as Angela Dorian) | |
| Patsy Kelly | ... | Laura-Louise McBirney | |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Mr. Nicklas (as Elisha Cook) | |
| Emmaline Henry | ... | Elise Dunstan | |
| Charles Grodin | ... | Dr. C.C. Hill | |
| Hanna Landy | ... | Grace Cardiff | |
| Phil Leeds | ... | Dr. Shand (as Philip Leeds) | |
| D'Urville Martin | ... | Diego | |
| Hope Summers | ... | Mrs. Gilmore |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
A Semente do Diabo (Portugal) [pt]
Dziecko Rosemary (Poland) [pl]
El bebé de Rosemary (Venezuela) [es]
La llavor del diable (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
La semilla del diablo (Spain) [es]
Le bébé de Rosemary (Canada: French title) [fr]
Le bébé de Rosemary (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
O Bebê de Rosemary (Brazil) [pt]
Rosemaries Baby (West Germany) [de]
Rosemary má detátko (Czech Republic) [cs]
Rosemary má dietatko (Slovakia) [sk]
Rosemary's Baby (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Rosemary's Baby (Denmark) [da]
Rosemary's Baby (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Rosemaryn painajainen (Finland) [fi]
Rosemaryna beba (Croatia) [hr]
Rouzmerina beba (Serbia) [sr]
To moro tis Rosemary (Greece) [el]
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Dziecko Rosemary (Poland) [pl]
El bebé de Rosemary (Venezuela) [es]
La llavor del diable (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
La semilla del diablo (Spain) [es]
Le bébé de Rosemary (Canada: French title) [fr]
Le bébé de Rosemary (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
O Bebê de Rosemary (Brazil) [pt]
Rosemaries Baby (West Germany) [de]
Rosemary má detátko (Czech Republic) [cs]
Rosemary má dietatko (Slovakia) [sk]
Rosemary's Baby (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Rosemary's Baby (Denmark) [da]
Rosemary's Baby (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Rosemaryn painajainen (Finland) [fi]
Rosemaryna beba (Croatia) [hr]
Rouzmerina beba (Serbia) [sr]
To moro tis Rosemary (Greece) [el]
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Runtime:
136 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Spain:18 (DVD rating) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Canada:18+ (Quebec) |
South Korea:18 |
Brazil:14 |
India:A |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:18A |
Finland:K-16 |
Ireland:18 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (video rating) |
UK:X (original rating) (cut) |
USA:Approved |
USA:R (re-rating) |
West Germany:16
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This was Roman Polanski's first American film. His first American film was going to be Downhill Racer (1969), but Robert Evans of Paramount decided that "Rosemary's Baby" would be more suited to Polanski.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Obvious wig on Rosemary during the rape.
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[First lines]
Mr. Nicklas: Are you a doctor?
Rosemary Woodhouse: He is an actor.
Mr. Nicklas: Oh! An actor! We're very popular with actors! Have I seen you in anything?
Guy Woodhouse: Well, I did "Hamlet" a while back, didn't I, Liz? Then we did "The Sandpiper"...
Rosemary Woodhouse: He's joking. He was in "Luther" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross" and a lot of TV plays and commercials.
Mr. Nicklas: That's where the money is, right? The commercials.
Guy Woodhouse: And the artistic thrill too!
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Mr. Nicklas: Are you a doctor?
Rosemary Woodhouse: He is an actor.
Mr. Nicklas: Oh! An actor! We're very popular with actors! Have I seen you in anything?
Guy Woodhouse: Well, I did "Hamlet" a while back, didn't I, Liz? Then we did "The Sandpiper"...
Rosemary Woodhouse: He's joking. He was in "Luther" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross" and a lot of TV plays and commercials.
Mr. Nicklas: That's where the money is, right? The commercials.
Guy Woodhouse: And the artistic thrill too!
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Soundtrack:
Lullaby
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FAQ
Was the film shot in chronological order?What plays has Guy done?
Does the green drink cause Rosemary all that pain?
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Why aren't the horror directors of today as careful with their scripts as Polanski was? Not that this is really horror. Horror as we know it came into being with the slasher flicks of the late 1970s and early 1980s; "Rosemary's Baby" is rather the kind of thing that the term "dark fantasy" was coined to describe, by people of taste who noticed that the word "horror" promised audiences something distinctly unpleasant and nasty.
The film's construction is marvellous. Things start slow - one beat, so to speak, to a bar - and gradually pick up speed so that by the end we are nervously tapping out semiquavers with our feet. Polanski also understands the gentle art of hint-dropping. Many events are filed away as tiny puzzles to be solved later, and they ARE solved later; others we don't attach any particular significance to at the time Polanski invites us to re-interpret in retrospect, AND chooses the right moment to let us do so. And then, at the end, AFTER we've worked everything out, he presents us with a surprise - a delightful, gratuitous twist which nothing had prepared us for, which we couldn't have guessed, yet which doesn't cancel out the story as we'd understood it. (Alas, many people know what this surprise is in advance. I, for one. Yet this foreknowledge did nothing to spoil my enjoyment: a sure sign of superb construction.)
All in all, a film that tempts you to rank it with the best ever made - which is more, but not much more, than it deserves - simply because it's perfect. Everything went right. Rosemary is a wonderfully sympathetic heroine, powerless without being passive, largely ignorant of what's going on around her without being at all stupid, and Mia Farrow makes you care deeply about her. The cinematography is pellucid; the art direction is subtly right; there's also a fine, odd yet tuneful, musical score. I can't believe I waited so long to see this.