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The Baby
Directed by
Ted Post
PG
1973
84m
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6.1
88%
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A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
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Cast of The Baby
Anjanette Comer
Ann Gentry
Susanne Zenor
Alba Wadsworth
Ruth Roman
Mrs. Wadsworth
Marianna Hill
Germaine Wadsworth
Tod Andrews
Doctor
Michael Pataki
Dennis
David Mooney
Baby Wadsworth
Beatrice Manley
Judith
Virginia Vincent
(uncredited)
Ted Post
Director
Abe Polsky
Writer / Producer
Milton Polsky
Producer
The Baby Ratings & Reviews
Sidney Watson
May 21, 2025
Camera quality was amazing - Acting amazing 👏🤩 Only watched it because of marianna hill Ruth Roman is a new favorite going to watch her movie The Killing Kind here on plex since I liked her in this one.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Even by the standards of early-'70s cinema, The Baby is one odd puppy.
Cultured Vultures
Gabriel Ricard
One of the most surreal black comedies of the 1970s, The Baby is must-see cult film cinema for anyone who truly loves such things.
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
At the risk of sounding cliche, they just don't make 'em like this anymore--there's no way a concept this controversial and outlandish would get green-lit let alone be given a competent director.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
The discomfort of The Baby is what makes it seem surprisingly subversive, thanks mostly to the rigorous physicality of David Mooney's (here credited as David Manzey) performance as a developmentally disabled adult.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
The film [is] a warped mirror on American family life, depicting parenting as an act of grotesque selfishness.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Sadistic horror pic that has achieved classic cult status for being so irreverently camp.
Film Comment Magazine
Maitland McDonagh
There's a master's thesis on The Baby waiting to be written and I'll be first in line to read it, but not because I expect to find the film's provocations tamed or its utter bizarreness gently folded into the seething swamp of things that make us go hmm.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
'The Baby' is absolutely gaga. Or should that be goo-goo-gaga? It's a multiple-personality disorder of a film that vacillates among the extremes of weirdo exploitation, psychological horror and social-reform drama.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Exploitation films don't come much stranger than 1973's The Baby.
ESplatter
Lucius Gore
... the film has the look and feel of a TV cop drama, and a politically incorrect, outlandish storyline that couldn't be filmed today.
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Shane Burridge
You may find yourself giggling with disbelief or maybe just embarrassment
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