Apartment 7A (2024)

A young dancer (Julia Garner) is struggling to make it on Broadway. Addicted to painkillers, she is taken under the wing of an elderly couple (Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally) who help her get on her feet again. But she begins to have strange hallucinations and after a one night stand with a producer (Jim Sturgess), she finds herself pregnant. But is he really the father? Inspired by the novel ROSEMARY'S BABY by Ira Levin and directed by Natalie Erika James (RELIC). A misguided prequel to the Roman Polanski film, ROSEMARY'S BABY. In the 1968 movie, the character of Terry (played by Victoria Vetri and played here by Garner) was a recovering junkie taken in by an elderly couple, the Castevets. Here, she's an ambitious dancer focusing on her career. In the 1968 film, she's grateful to the Castevets but here she finds them meddlesome. With one exception, the film is devoid of suspense and atmosphere. Worst of all, the film inexplicably includes several surreal musical numbers as well as scenes from the show Garner is cast in. Garner's singing voice is weak and her dancing is generic and the show looks awful. The only performance that stands out is Dianne Wiest but unfortunately she's facing Ruth Gordon's indelible Oscar winning performance and she comes in a far second. The premise is good but it's just a botch job here. With Marli Siu and Rosy McEwen.