APARTMENT 7A

Director: Natalie Erika James
Starring: Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Jim Sturgess, Rosy McEwen

There have been a few remakes and attempts at telling a new side of Ira Levin’s classic novel “Rosemary’s Baby.” Writer/director Natalie Erika James takes a new crack at this world by taking the prequel approach with Apartment 7A. If you remember the original film, you may remember Rosemary meeting Terry Gionoffrio down in the laundry room at the Bramford apartment. Terry was taken in by Minnie and Roman Castavet due to falling on hard times. In Apartment 7A, she’s now played by Emmy winner Julia Garner which tells her side of story. Terry was an aspiring actress and dancer hoping to make it big in New York City. It’s 1965 and she needs that next paying gig to pay the rent. That all comes to a halt when she falls in rehearsal and breaks her ankle. It’s a bad injury, but she’s willing to do whatever it takes to keep working. Ruth Gordon won the Oscar for playing Minnie Castavet in Rosemary’s Baby, and now Dianne Wiest plays the enigmatic neighbor. Minnie and her husband, Roman (McNally), offer up a room at the Bramford so Terry can get back on her feet. There’s something off about them, but Terry trusts them and sees this as a new opportunity to gain her life back. That is until she gets unexpectedly pregnant. She questions whether this means the end of her career. Her friendly new neighbors become a little too friendly when they find out she’s expecting. Streaming on Paramount+

Here’s my review