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Rosemary's Baby

  • 1968
  • Approved
  • 2h 17m
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8.0/10
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

  • Director
    • Roman Polanski
  • Writers
    • Ira Levin
    • Roman Polanski
  • Stars
    • Mia Farrow
    • John Cassavetes
    • Ruth Gordon
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    224K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,720
    17
    • Director
      • Roman Polanski
    • Writers
      • Ira Levin
      • Roman Polanski
    • Stars
      • Mia Farrow
      • John Cassavetes
      • Ruth Gordon
    • 655User reviews
    • 275Critic reviews
    • 96Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 12 wins & 12 nominations total

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    Roman Polanski and Elisha Cook Jr. in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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    Mia Farrow and Robert Evans in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
    Mia Farrow and Robert Evans in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
    Mia Farrow and Robert Evans in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Rosemary Woodhouse
    John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
    • Guy Woodhouse
    Ruth Gordon
    Ruth Gordon
    • Minnie Castevet
    Sidney Blackmer
    Sidney Blackmer
    • Roman Castevet
    Maurice Evans
    Maurice Evans
    • Hutch
    Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Bellamy
    • Dr. Sapirstein
    Victoria Vetri
    Victoria Vetri
    • Terry
    • (as Angela Dorian)
    Patsy Kelly
    Patsy Kelly
    • Laura-Louise
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    • Mr. Nicklas
    • (as Elisha Cook)
    Emmaline Henry
    Emmaline Henry
    • Elise Dunstan
    Charles Grodin
    Charles Grodin
    • Dr. Hill
    Hanna Landy
    Hanna Landy
    • Grace Cardiff
    Phil Leeds
    Phil Leeds
    • Dr. Shand
    • (as Philip Leeds)
    D'Urville Martin
    D'Urville Martin
    • Diego
    Hope Summers
    Hope Summers
    • Mrs. Gilmore
    Marianne Gordon
    Marianne Gordon
    • Rosemary's Girl Friend
    Wende Wagner
    Wende Wagner
    • Rosemary's Girl Friend
    • (as Wendy Wagner)
    Toby Adler
    • Lady on Yacht
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Roman Polanski
    • Writers
      • Ira Levin
      • Roman Polanski
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      According to Mia Farrow, the scenes where Rosemary walks in front of traffic were spontaneous and genuine. Roman Polanski is reported to have told her that "nobody will hit a pregnant woman." The scene was successfully shot with Farrow walking into real traffic and Polanski following, operating the hand-held camera since he was the only one willing to do it.
    • Goofs
      When Rosemary is getting ready to go through the closet to the Castevets' apartment, she takes down all the shelves and then goes away. When she comes back, the shelf above her head has been replaced.
    • Quotes

      Roman Castevet: Rosemary...

      Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up.

      Roman Castevet: Rosemary...

      Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up. You're in Dubrovnik, I don't hear you.

    • Alternate versions
      The film originally proved problematic for the UK censors and the rape scene was toned down by the BBFC for the cinema release with edits made to remove dialogue and shots of Rosemary's legs being bound. All later UK video releases featured the uncut print.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Lullaby
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Krzysztof Komeda

      Sung by Mia Farrow

    User reviews655

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    10/10
    A Landmark Horror film
    "Rosemary's Baby" is one of the best horror films ever made. This isn't because it's going to scare the pants off you with a series of sensational jolts. This isn't the shallow, gimmicky kind of horror movie we mostly get these days, and it isn't the traditional old-fashioned horror film of an earlier era. This is a movie that came out during a period of transition in Hollywood. The old production codes were breaking down and films could suddenly be more true to life in the way they showed how people really lived, acted and talked. 1968s "Rosemary's Baby" is a more sophisticated, less elegant thriller of the kind that Alfred Hitchcock patented, but it displays much more class and intelligence than the horror movies that would come out in its wake. Popular '70s films such as "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" are the prodigy of "Rosemary's Baby," but offer far less nuance and much greater vulgarity. What we get here is a more naturalistic depiction of modern life, but without the crassness that would soon explode into American cinema.

    Most of the credit for what makes "Rosemary's Baby" such a successful film goes to Roman Polanski. Polanski is a master at conveying to an audience not just a sense of the uncanny but a vivid depiction of it. His earlier films like "Knife in the Water," "Repulsion" and "Dance of the Vampires," display the talents that would come to such a controlled mastery in "Rosemary's Baby."

    Polanski very faithfully adapts Ira Levin's novel to the screen so that the viewer is, just as the reader was, free to interpret the eerie events of the story as either reality or a depiction of an isolated woman's decent into madness. At the same time the picture can be taken as a black joke on the human male's fears of the changes a woman goes through during pregnancy, both physically and emotionally. But Polanski seems most interested in presenting a normal world, in this case Manhattan in the mid 1960s, and then through subtle cinematic techniques get an audience to actually believe that the hysterical, fantastic ravings of the heroine could be true. It is this tour de force exercise in suspension of disbelief that makes the film a classic. The horror films that have come since have had to ratchet up the shock effects in order to thrill more desensitized audiences, but this deliberately paced film reminds us of how much better it is to leave things to the imagination of the viewer. That is where films really come alive and remain so.

    The Paramount DVD presents an excellent print of the movie that looks as if it were shot yesterday, along with extras that include new interviews with Polanski, executive producer Bob Evans and production designer Richard Sylbert, and a featurette from the time of the film's original release that really works as a good time capsule.
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    • Release date
      • June 12, 1968 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Rosemaries Baby
    • Filming locations
      • Dakota Hotel - 1 West 72nd St. at Central Park West, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Guy and Rosemary's apartment building)
    • Production company
      • William Castle Productions
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    • Budget
      • $2,300,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 17 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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