Rating: PG13
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 06/11/2004(USA)
Release Date: 11/09/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly
satirical comedy drama.
Joanna Eberhart (
Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Looking to take some time off to start over,
Joanna and her husband,
Walter Kresby (
Matthew Broderick), pull up stakes and move to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford.
Walter takes to his new environment with real enthusiasm and joins the local men's organization, headed by one
Mike Wellington.
Joanna, on the other hand, finds that Stepford is just a bit too quiet and well-groomed for her taste, and is taken aback by the aggressively cheerful and servile attitude of
Mike's wife,
Claire (
Glenn Close), and the other women of the community. A notable exception is
Bobbi Markowitz (
Bette Midler), a happily misanthropic writer who revels in her lack of enthusiasm for housework or exercise.
Joanna and
Bobbi become fast friends, but as they look closer at the all-too-perfect surfaces of Stepford and its female inhabitants, they slowly discover a terrible secret lurking beneath. Also featuring
Faith Hill,
Jon Lovitz, and
Roger Bart,
The Stepford Wives was previously adapted for the screen in 1975, with
Katherine Ross in the lead; that version spawned three made-for-TV sequels.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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