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.
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the laundry dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child.
Written by Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
Directed by Roman Polanski, whose pregnant wife actress Sharon Tate was murdered in 1969 by Charles Manson and his followers, who titled their death spree "Helter Skelter" after the 1968 song by The Beatles, one of whose members, John Lennon, would one day live (and in 1980 be murdered) in the Manhattan apartment building called The Dakota - where Rosemary's Baby had been filmed.
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Goofs
Anachronisms:
When Rosemary is in downtown Manhattan during the Christmas season of 1965 (her baby, we are told, is due to be born in June 1966), the title of the movie on the marquee of Radio City Music Hall is
The Happiest Millionaire, which didn't open until the Christmas season of 1967.
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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! See more »