In Paris, an attractive pregnant woman jumps out of her apartment window, and splatters her bloody body on the sidewalk. Next, also attractive American ballet dancer Zoe Saldana (as Rosemary "Ro" Woodhouse) suffers a miscarriage. She and her struggling writer husband Patrick J. Adams (as Guy Woodhouse) will eventually be "connected" to the couple in the opening scene. They move to Paris, where Mr. Adams gets a professorial job. An unholy combination of providence and happenstance arranges for Saldana to have her purse snatched, which leads to a meeting with eerie Carole Bouquet (as Margaux) and her weird husband Jason Isaacs (as Roman Castevet). The wealthy couple decides to set the younger couple up as parents to a new version of "Rosemary's Baby" (1968)...
Many of the changes are plausible and interesting, but they add nothing and bring along a new set of problems. For example, introducing a parallel couple works, but it does make the villains seem less powerful and mysterious. The biggest strength is the expanding of the character played by Mr. Adams, but we jump from him being suspicious (like when he encounters his parallel) to participating wholeheartedly (we guess, from the ending of part one). One of the oddest additions is how Saldana, director Agnieszka Holland and filmmakers give the relationship between "Rosemary" and her attractive sponsor a Lesbian vibe. They kiss several times and Ms. Bouquet even gets to cure a headache by sensuously stroking Saldana's chest...
The second half of NBC's two-part TV Movie re-make of writer Ira Levin's classic novel, which was originally directed by Roman Polanski and starred Mia Farrow, covers the "troubled" pregnancy of Rosemary. The interesting revisions introduced in the first half become increasingly uninteresting. The hint of a Lesbian romance between Ro and her sponsor is cast to the wind. Instead, the character seems to go for Guy. Some of the story becomes (unintentionally) laughable, such as the scene where Ms. Saldana chows down on the guts of a chicken. The cat "No-Name" is a real scene stealer. Viewed in a singular sitting – minus many commercials – the film starts out intriguing and drags down as the revisions become predictable. Filmmakers might have been wise to consider an abortion.
**** Rosemary's Baby (5/11/14, 5/15/14) Agnieszka Holland ~ Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Carole Bouquet, Jason Isaacs
Many of the changes are plausible and interesting, but they add nothing and bring along a new set of problems. For example, introducing a parallel couple works, but it does make the villains seem less powerful and mysterious. The biggest strength is the expanding of the character played by Mr. Adams, but we jump from him being suspicious (like when he encounters his parallel) to participating wholeheartedly (we guess, from the ending of part one). One of the oddest additions is how Saldana, director Agnieszka Holland and filmmakers give the relationship between "Rosemary" and her attractive sponsor a Lesbian vibe. They kiss several times and Ms. Bouquet even gets to cure a headache by sensuously stroking Saldana's chest...
The second half of NBC's two-part TV Movie re-make of writer Ira Levin's classic novel, which was originally directed by Roman Polanski and starred Mia Farrow, covers the "troubled" pregnancy of Rosemary. The interesting revisions introduced in the first half become increasingly uninteresting. The hint of a Lesbian romance between Ro and her sponsor is cast to the wind. Instead, the character seems to go for Guy. Some of the story becomes (unintentionally) laughable, such as the scene where Ms. Saldana chows down on the guts of a chicken. The cat "No-Name" is a real scene stealer. Viewed in a singular sitting – minus many commercials – the film starts out intriguing and drags down as the revisions become predictable. Filmmakers might have been wise to consider an abortion.
**** Rosemary's Baby (5/11/14, 5/15/14) Agnieszka Holland ~ Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Carole Bouquet, Jason Isaacs