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Apartment 7A (Trailer Review)

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"I came here for one reason: to make something of myself. To be on stage. To see my name in big lights. But dreams don't always come true." These are the achingly relatable and sobering words of Terry Gionoffrio, the young protagonist of Natalie Erika James' sophomore directorial outing, Apartment 7A . You may recall Terry as the ill-fated recovering drug addict first introduced in Roman Polanski's 1968 psychological supernatural horror classic, Rosemary's Baby . Originally portrayed by Angela Dorian, Terry was doing her laundry in the basement of the eerie "Black Bramford" New York City apartment building at the same time as newly arrived tenant Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow). The two ladies engaged in a friendly conversation in which Terry divulged that she was living across the hall from Rosemary with an elderly married couple, the eccentric but disarmingly kind and giving Castevets, who picked Terry up off the sidewalk and opened their door to h...