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The Baby (1973)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 6
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Release Date: Mar 1, 1973 Wide

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Ann Gentry is a social worker, whose husband has been involved in a car crash, and takes up the case of the twisted and mysterous Wadsworth family, and takes a special interest in a member only called "Baby", a mentally-ill twenty-something who still acts and is treated like an infant by his mother and sisters. Ann is interested in Baby and wants to have him for her own. The Wadsworth clan has been neglectful and abusive to Baby, but Mrs. Wadsworth has been extremely overprotective of him ever

PG, 1 hr. 24 min.

Horror

Directed By: Ted Post

In Theaters: Mar 1, 1973 Wide

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Critic Reviews for The Baby

All Critics (9) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (1)

'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.

November 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Less a horror film than an outright freak show, The Baby grows oddly hypnotic in its accumulation of oddity.

July 22, 2011 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com

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Jeremy Heilman

MovieMartyr.com

... the film has the look and feel of a TV cop drama, and a politically incorrect, outlandish storyline that couldn't be filmed today.

September 6, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Lucius Gore

ESplatter

You may find yourself giggling with disbelief or maybe just embarrassment

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment

Shane Burridge

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A social worker becomes obsessed with a family who keeps their mentally retarded adult son in a crib wearing a diaper; his mother and two sisters are willing to do ANYTHING to assure that "baby" is not taken away from them. The only things that stands out in this acceptable thriller are Ruth Roman's campy performance

October 6, 2011

Greg S

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At last, a movie that delivers a strong Christian message, love thy brother, and keep him in a near infantile state so as to control him. That is what Christians do, isn't it?

April 19, 2009

Shane Donnelly

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