The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives
PG-13 | 10 June 2004 (USA)
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What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

Reviews
BootDigest

Such a frustrating disappointment

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Wordiezett

So much average

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Fatma Suarez

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Mathilde the Guild

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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kristybs_christian

I can't believe all these bad reviews! This movie is awesome. I won't say anymore than that. All of these women that are leaving bad reviews are most likely feminists that have no sense of humour

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vandelour

What they got right: 1. Great opening titles, the color was fantastic.. vibrant hues of all shades. 2. The movie ended. What they got wrong: Everything in between numbers 1 and 2 above. Ira Levin must be spinning in his grave. This abomination of product sponsor shots, inane attempts at 'contemporary humor and viewpoints' and a tooth grinding catastrophe of an ending… well, you have to experience it to understand. But I recommend getting sloshed before watching.I gave it a 2 for Christopher Walken. Given so little to work with though

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aliuelic

I watched The Stepford Wives because of Bree Van De Camp in Desperate Housewives who I kinda like. However, the wives of Stepford are absolutely ridiculous. You don't even know those so-called perfect women are robots or human beings! At least, Bree is an emotional character, a human of flesh and blood. What's more, it seems to me that this film is a stigmatization of feminism.

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Prismark10

Thirty years after the release of the critically acclaimed original here is the critically slammed remake.Nicole Kidman is a hard as nails television executive who makes feminist television reality shows. She gets fired when a male victim of one of her shows goes postal.Matthew Broderick plays her husband and is also a media executive. He has noticed the despite being a successful couple their marriage has suffered because of the work/life balance.After her dismissal the couple move to the town of Stepford which seems like an idyllic retreat from the stresses and strains of the rat race in the city. The wives are the stay at home types and the husbands seems to be all rest and play. Not sure who does any work!Broderick recognizes that Stepford is a happy community. Kidman along with frumpy author Bette Midler and a renowned gay designer finds there is something wrong with this white picket fenced Republican wet dream.This version is a satire mixed with black humour and a surprisingly amiable film as long as you park your brain elsewhere. The film went through re-shoots with an ending that does not work. Then again a lot of the film does not work if you spend too long thinking about it. Its as a half good idea and an unfinished script which got the green light to go into production.Are these women robots or was there some sort of brain re- programming? If they are robots the original women must be dead? We have a scene where one of the women dispenses bank notes for some reason. If its some sort of brain re-programming then the women could become normal at the end of the film. However the film wants it both ways which means the script was not ready, unsure or had to be re-shot later on.

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