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Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful TV producer on the verge of yet another Emmy-winning streak of TV shows when she is fired from her job at a prestigious network. She then has a mental breakdown and her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and their two children (Dylan Hartigan, Fallon Brooking) move to Stepford, Conneticut, the most perfectly perfect little town there ever was. The women of Stepfrod spend all day knitting, gardening, exercising in beautiful dresses, and are the most splendid of all women on Earth. Soon, Joanna along with her best-selling author buddy, Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Democratic, flamboyant fairy friend Roger (Roger Bart) realize that something isn't right in Stepford. All is not as perfect as it seems...especially after Roger and Bobbie are turned into perfect portraits of Stepford. Why are the women of Stepfrod so perfect? What do the Stepford Husabnds have to do with the scheme? Will Joanna ultimately uncover the truth? Or are the Stepford coming for her to make her a blonde, bubbly piece of perfection?Actors
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3 Comments
In the Mood for a Laugh?
Contrary to popular belief, this remake on Ira Levin’s book is not as dark as the original movie.
It certainly wasn’t what I expected- not coming from the man who wrote ‘Rosemary’s Baby’. This take on the film was light in general but definitely dark in other areas. Overall, however, this film didn’t take itself too seriously.
Comedic humor is provided by Bette Midler and a weirdo-d out Glenn Close. What makes this movie even more hysterical is the fact that in 2004, a community could exist where women exercise using simple household chores and are at the beck and call of some… well… not-so-attractive nor smart men.
Nicole Kidman stars as a hard-nosed television honcho, with Matthew Broderick as her somewhat more docile husband. They have two kids whom I really don’t remember seeing much after the first twenty minutes. After she is fired from her television job, she suffers a nervous breakdown, and Broderick’s character decides it would be best to move the family to Stepford. They do, and from the start, Kidman knows that something is amiss.
Beautiful women with dorky men? Yeah, it happens. But what propells the mystery is that all of the Stepford wives were once highly successful CEOs and bosses who are now dominated and submissive.
There is a final twist to the movie that isn’t revealed until the end, and I think it surprised most viewers- it’s not something that you really see coming. Those movies, in my opinion, are the best.
Christopher Walken, creepy as always, is not diappointing in this film.
I was not let down with this film, but it could be because I didn’t go in with many expectations.
Doesnt take itself seriously, so you shouldnt either
Not your father’s Oldsmobile!
I knew from the previews and articles about the remake of The Stepford Wives that the filmmakers were going for the comedy that was always darkly beneath the creepy fear and paranoia of Ira Levin’s novel, and the original movie starring Katherine Ross. So I was ready to be disappointed. But the superb cast and the fun they’re all having won me over. Silly, stupid and pretty funny. Not so much a remake as a complete retooling of the basic premise of the original. Not bad. And a twist of an ending! Still, I just might dig out my VHS of the original and take it out for a spin. For old times sake.