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Rosemary's Baby (1968) -- 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.
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Director:
Roman Polanski
Writers:
Ira Levin (novel)
Roman Polanski (screenplay)
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Release Date:
12 June 1968 (USA) more
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
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 9 nominations more
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(139 articles)
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User Comments:
Reassuring to fine it's every bit as good as its staunchest champions would have you believe more (287 total)
US TV Schedule:
Fri. Nov. 137:15 AMMAX   

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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]
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Runtime:
136 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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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Trivia:
A scene was shot, but not used, of the characters attending an off-Broadway play. Mia Farrow's and Emmaline Henry's attend a performance of "The Fantasticks" and meet Joan Crawford and Van Johnson as themselves. Along with several other insignificant scenes, this was deleted to reduce the film's running time. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Rosemary begins putting the Scrabble tiles away, the wrong anagram (one Rosemary had already discarded) can be glimpsed to the side. more
Quotes:
[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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Devil's Disciples (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Lullaby more

FAQ

What's in the green drink?
Was the film shot in chronological order?
Is that Mia Farrow singing the lullaby over the opening and closing credits?
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89 out of 104 people found the following comment useful.
Reassuring to fine it's every bit as good as its staunchest champions would have you believe, 21 April 2001
10/10
Author: Spleen from Canberra, Australia

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.

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