Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill

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...( read more  read more... ) "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 since his father left shortly after his birth, and isn't going to let another caregiver mess with her son. Eventually, Ann and her mother take Baby, and his mother and sisters come after them, but Ann and her mother kill them, and we find out why she is so interested in Baby. To be a playmate for her husband, who was left with the mental capacity of an infant after his accident.

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PG, 84 minutes

Directed by: Ted Post

Release Date: March 1, 1973

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  • April 23, 2009
    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 21, 2009
    Well, I got the ending half right... what did ppl dig swimming pools for in the 70's? LOL. Classic 70s cult. Thanks M.
  • April 19, 2009
    This is sort of an analogue to the Stepford Wives w/ Kate Ross. Another tribute to the originality of the '70's macabre genre.
  • July 14, 2008
    Any adult actor who agrees to play the role of an infant has got to be hard up for work/money. The twist ending was so-so. Just didn't care for this one.
  • July 8, 2008
    Dark and twisted yet with a happy ending. Should be a cult classic.

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