The Stepford Wives Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Frank Oz
Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction
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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, Rovi
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