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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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(149 articles)
Polanski wins $4.5M bail, house arrest likely
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Polanski Wins Bail In Switzerland
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(From Filmicafe. 25 November 2009, 12:08 PM, PST)
Polanski Wins Bail In Switzerland
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A Landmark Horror film
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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 |
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136 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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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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Tanis root plays a major part in the film and in the beginning, Rosemary and her husband are told of the previous occult-based horrors that went on in their apartment building. One name mentioned is Mocata. Both Mocata and Tanith are two major characters from the classic horror movie The Devil Rides Out (1968), a story of satanic ritual involving a young girl.
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Continuity: When Rosemary is getting ready to go through the closet to the Castevet's apartment, she takes down all the shelves and then goes away. When she comes back, the shelf above her head has been replaced.
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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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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 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: (#2.15)" (1969)
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Soundtrack:
Lullaby
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How was Roman able to persuade Guy so quickly?What's in the green drink?
Why did Dr. Hill want the second blood test?
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"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.