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	The Stepford Wives (2004)
		Although I haven't seen the original version of "The Stepford Wives", i understood the general idea before i watched this years remake.
		The cast do their job well enough; Kidman does well as the ex-career woman trying to unravel Stepfords secrets, Broderick is fairly effective as the husband who always came in second, Walken is well cast as the calm, authoritative leader, and Close does well as the woman behind-the-scenes.
		"The Stepford Wives" has been described as a "very modern comedy thriller", and maybe this is right.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0327162 (492 words)

	The Stepford Wives DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		The Stepford Wives are sexually compliant, always well-dressed, maintain their houses spotlessly, are soft-spoken, have no real ideas of their own, etc. etc.
		Most women of today might regard 'The Stepford Wives' as a quaint, if well-made, story; others are likely to see its application to their own lives very clearly.
		'The Stepford Wives' is a horror movie, but it was made with a kind of cocked-eyebrow approach; some of the creepiest scenes, as one near the end in Bobbie's kitchen, are as funny as they are disturbing.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/thestepfordwives.shtml (1435 words)

	The Stepford Wives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stepford Wives is the name of a 1972 novel by Ira Levin, as well as two movies of the same name based upon the novel, the first released in 1975, with a remake of the film released in 2004.
		The protagonist is Joanna Eberhart, a new arrival to Stepford from New York City with her husband and children, eager to start a new life.
		A 1996 version called The Stepford Husbands was made as a third TV movie with the gender-roles reversed, and the men in the town being brainwashed by a crazed female clinic director into being perfect husbands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Stepford_Wives (753 words)

	The Stepford Wives (1975 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stepford Wives is a 1975 sci-fi/horror film based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives.
		Joanna sneaks into the mansion which is the headquarters of the town's "Men's Association" where she finds graphic confirmation that the women have all been replaced with robot duplicates.
		Newman did not have those looks, and since none of the other wives had been cast at that point, all the other actresses cast looked more like stereotypical New England (or, in Newman's case English) housewives, thus, in his opinion, hurting the film's credibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film) (452 words)

	Stepford Wives
		Glenn Close is surprisingly good in the role of Claire Wellington - head of the Stepford Wives and married to Mike, played to the hilt by Christopher Walken.
		For those of you who don't know the plot, Joanna Eberhard and her husband move to the sleepy little town of Stepford Connecticut, which seems to be the ideal place to raise a family.
		Her problem grows even more urgent when she goes over to visit Bobbie one morning and discovers that her friend is now dressed in a frilly gown, with an immaculate house and has become obsessed with dusting.
	www.gothicrevue.com /StepfordWives.html (925 words)

	The Stepford Wives DVD - Widescreen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stepford has a secret: all of the wives are way too perfect, and all of the husbands are way too happy.
		"The Stepford Wives," a comic re-imagining of the 1975 suspense classic, follows the tale that unfolds when a young couple moves from Manhattan to the upper-class suburb of Connecticut.
		Once there, they soon discover that the Stepford men are replacing their wives with compliant robots.
	www.simsonic.com /main/movies/comedy/stepfordwives.htm (188 words)

	The Stepford Wives
		The thing about The Stepford Wives is that there are parts that are done well (the whole preamble when Johanna presents the reality show to the affiliates and one of the contestants takes revenge) is quite a good look at the possible consequences of reality TV production.
		I did not see the original Stepford Wives film (one of m my younger sisters saw it when she was ten years old and she said it terrified her), but I just read the book by Ira Levin.
		The message of Stepford Wives seems to me to be that marriage, ultimately, does not work for the adults.
	journals.aol.com /rosepacatte/MyMovies/entries/2004/06/13/the-stepford-wives/343 (617 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004_ \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These wives were formerly "castrating career (women)," CEOs, judges and brain surgeons, who intimidated their husbands' manhood and scotched dreams of the "little lady." So the men essentially lobotomize their wives, reshaping them from Martha Stewarts to Betty Crockers.
		Naturally, when Broderick starts hanging with the Stepford men and learning that their gorgeous wives are remote-controlled dolls (one even spews cash from her mouth like an ATM -- funny!), his eyes light up with possibility.
		The unimproved "Stepford Wives" sports the high-gloss breeziness of a movie dying to be loved.
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/S/thestepfordwives.html (602 words)

	DVD Times - The Stepford Wives (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stepford: A definition features under four minutes of the movie's cast providing their own explanations for what a Stepford Wife really is and how the phrase came about.
		Stepford: The Architects allows Oz, writer Rudnick to explain their motivation for doing the film and their decision to replay for laughs what had previously been a low-key horror film stemming from the first wave of feminism hitting the U.S in the 70s.
		The Stepford Wives is ten minutes of Kidman, Midler, Bart, Close and Hill describing how they approached their portrayal of a Stepford wife (or husband) and what the experience was like.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13359 (1654 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Stepford Wives (xhtml)
		In Stepford, the women the women dress up and wear heels, even for aerobics (no sweaty gym shorts), and Claire leads them in pantomimes of domestic chores ("Let's all be washing machines!").
		Christopher Walken is Claire's husband and seems to be running Stepford; it's the kind of creepy role that has Walken written all over it, and he stars in a Stepford promotional film that showcases another one of his unctuous explanations of the bizarre.
		"The Stepford Wives" is little more than an anecdote, and like all good storytellers, Oz and Rudnick don't meander on their way to the punchline.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040611/REVIEWS/406110306/1023 (747 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "The Stepford Wives" DVD Review
		The original Stepford Wives, released in 1975, was a feminist thriller about a woman who discovers the terrifying secret behind a town filled with “happy homemakers.” The original is a film of its time, taking the 1950’s stereotype of the “perfect woman” and turning it into a malevolent concept.
		Instead of having successful men who are just threatened by their wives having more power than them, this version has very successful, yet emasculated losers who take revenge on their wives by turning them into robots.
		Stepford Wives is not a very good film, it has moments, but the moments never add up to a satisfying whole.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/s/stepfordwives.htm (516 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004)
		Stepford is the picture-perfect community, free of crime, poverty and stress; every home is huge and immaculately landscaped.
		She soon discovers that all of the Stepford Wives were once successful and ambitious women like herself, but have been “reprogrammed” to become docile, loving and subservient housewives by the Men's Association.
		It's obvious everyone has a lot of fun with their broadly-drawn roles, and from that aspect, the film is a pleasure to watch, as is the tremendous attention to detail in creating this idyllic community.
	dvdcorner.net /html/stepfordwives.html (922 words)

	the f-word - The Stepford Wives
		When William Goldman wrote the screenplay for the original film version of The Stepford Wives back in 1975, he did not intend the robotic, 'ideal' women of Stepford to be prim and proper housewives in floral dresses and frilly aprons.
		I was quite excited, therefore, when I heard that The Stepford Wives was being remade, assuming that this time, surely, they must be abandoning the frilly frocks and dealing with a somewhat more realistic anti-feminist fantasy.
		The fact that they had not was an early sign that the updated Stepford Wives was hardly making a serious attempt to deal with contemporary gender roles.
	www.thefword.org.uk /reviews/2004/07/the_stepford_wives (1194 words)

	THE STEPFORD WIVES (2004)
		THE STEPFORD WIVES remake, under the often gifted and confident hands of Oz, is a misguided mess, one that tries to be too much a calculated comedy and less a nail biting feminist satire and psychological thriller.
		So, in a stroke of inspiration, he decides to move the whole family to Stepford, Connecticut (that state is the punchline for one of the film's other big laughs, but shall not be spoiled by me in an effort to preserve the secret of the film).
		THE STEPFORD WIVES is a lot like the women in the town – lifeless, intellectually vacant, without any real emotional investment, and superficially great to look at, but lacking in a strong personal voice.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/stepford_wives.htm (2074 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - The Stepford Wives
		Stepford Wives is an erratic blend of gender and stereotype humor.
		Joanna eventually discovers the women of Stepford, whose facial expressions are only a mild caricature of the ladies on Oxygen, have all been transformed into dutiful, homemaker sex kittens by the self-proclaimed leader of the town, Mike (Christopher Walken).
		What follows her discovery is a half-hearted attempt to meld the dark science fiction of the original novel by Ira Levin with a poorly written, poorly executed ending with a twist upon a twist.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2004/stepfordwives.htm (885 words)

	The Stepford Wives
		Joanna Eberhart, a wildly succesful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut.
		The wives of Stepford are a little too perfect and a little too bland, and their perfect marriages reek of artificiality.
		Not only does the opening sequence render “Stepford’s” characters unbelievable, and its slapstick interrupt and destroy the story’s messages, but the few intelligent strides the film has taken are erased in a final bit of backpedaling meant to leave us feeling happy.
	movies.zertinet.com /2004/stepfordwives.htm (806 words)

	Shared - Movies - Interviews - S - Stepford Wives 040610
		Joanna is a powerful, career-minded woman who has a breakdown and moves with her family to Stepford, Connecticut, in hopes of saving her marriage.
		She proceeds to have a breakdown, her whole family is falling apart, and her husband takes her off to the town of Stepford, Connecticut, for her to recover, and she goes because she wants to sort of salvage their marriage.
		Kidman: Yeah, in Stepford everybody is serene and nobody seems to have any stress and everyone lives in very big houses and nobody rocks the boat, and that's what she finds kind of extraordinary.
	www.mtv.com /shared/movies/interviews/s/stepford_wives_040610 (510 words)

	Stepford Wives, The (2004): Reviews
		The Stepford Wives is a sophisticated and comic re-imagining of the 1975 suspense classic.
		Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas.
		Only Close, in a majestically, maniacally brittle demonstration of Stepford overdrive, has the courage to show how nutty the pursuit of domestic perfection is. In this mess of a film, she is perfection.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/stepfordwives (1609 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Stepford Wives, The (2004)
		1975's "The Stepford Wives" (and the novel by Ira Levin from which it was based) were dark, unrelenting, and cynical, a comment on the post-Nixon era, when feminism was just breaking out and men were attempting to come to terms with their opposite sex's newfound liberation and independence.
		The talented supporting players include Glenn Close (2001's "The Safety of Objects") as Claire, the cheerful leader of the Stepford wives; Christopher Walken (2004's "Man on Fire") as her daunting husband, Mike, the head of the men's association; and country star Faith Hill (in her feature debut) as Sarah, a frequently malfunctioning Stepford wife.
		This new incantation of "The Stepford Wives," while inferior to the 1975 original, ably stands as a completely separate entity, putting a welcome new spin, a brash style, and more big laughs than expected on an old tale that still holds quite a bit of relevance.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/s/04_stepfordwives.htm (941 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - The Stepford Wives (1975)
		It is implied that all of the Stepford Wives have been "improved," apparently with the design help of a pin-up illustrator based on Alberto Vargas.
		The Stepford Wives is written well enough that a plausible case is made, which means that it joins The Handmaid's Tale among the ranks of movies that men do not want to show to the women they're dating.
		The mindlessness of the Stepford wives is what disqualifies them from what the term has come to mean.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/s/stepford-wives.html (1008 words)

	The Stepford Wives: Special Collector's Edition (2004)
		There, the women have been transformed by their husbands into a totally submissive, near-robotic state in which they are blissfully happy doing housework and looking pretty, and are totally compliant to their men.
		It turns out that there’s a reason why the women of Stepford seem too good to be true, as a dark secret explains their perfection.
		Overall, Stepford was a decent transfer with a few problems that knocked it down to a “B-“.
	www.dvdmg.com /stepfordwives2004.shtml (2298 words)

	Joe Critic \| The Stepford Wives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trying to keep her marriage alive, Joanna tries to quell her suspicions, but after her two friends fall to the cookie cutter doom of the Stepford wives, Joanna realizes that the husbands are turning their wives into compliant robots.
		In this version, the husbands make their wives robots because the wives are better than them at everything and they're jealous.
		Stepford hits on a few insightful jokes into the battle of the sexes, but uses mainly flowery costumes and opulent scenery to provide its scattered laughs.
	www.joecritic.com /reviews/movies/the_stepford_wives.php (578 words)

	The Stepford Wives
		A plot involving husbands who replace their wives with robots, however, is reason enough for concern.
		Fears that "The Stepford Wives" would be a male-bashing extravaganza worthy of Andrea Dworkin proved, mercifully, to be unfounded.
		But, with a good dose of humour, "The Stepford Wives" is - even in our supposedly enlightened 21st century - a much-needed reminder of how ridiculous male sexism is. On that note, I’m going to go find something to read by that individualist-feminist breath of fresh air, Wendy McElroy.
	www.inkandashes.net /the_stepford_wives.html (715 words)

	Reviews: The Stepford Wives - Christianity Today Movies
		Joanna does not entirely conform to the Stepford way of life, thanks to two other relatively new arrivals in town—Bobbi Markowitz (Bette Midler), a sassy Jewish author, and Roger Bannister (Roger Bart), a flamboyantly gay man—who bring a bit of spice to her life and keep it unpredictable.
		The Stepford Wives is rated PG-13 for "sexual content, thematic material and language." The characters often talk about sex and on one occasion they overhear a couple having sex.
		When The Stepford Wives was first published, and when the first film version came along in 1975, it carried with it an anti-establishment attitude, lampooning a chauvinistic society that kept women from seeking careers or from thinking for themselves.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/stepfordwives.html (1491 words)

	Movie Review: The Stepford Wives
		The Stepford Wives tells the story of the small town of Stepford, Connecticut where all of the men are manly and all of the women happily wait on their husbands hand and foot.
		Her husband, Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick) moves the family to peaceful Stepford as a way to give Joanna a more relaxing setting in which to recuperate.
		The sets and costumes for The Stepford Wives are beautiful, and unquestionably lend ambiance to the movie itself.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2004/stepford-wives.html (624 words)

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		When she learns that Walter wants to force her to be "adjusted" like the rest of the town women, to automatically behave as his personal slave, Joanna argues that a robotic wife can't say "I love you" and actually mean it.
		Besides some shocking references to body parts and the open flirting of wives toward other married men, the most distasteful scene involves Joanna, Bobbie and Roger breaking into an injured friend's home, where they hear loud and prolonged wails of intimacy from an unseen bedroom.
		Stepford is presented as a naïve 1950's world, where Christianity is lumped together with Republican politics and "family values", which also seem to support the subjugation of women, disregard of homosexuals, and insensitive men pursuing adolescent fantasies.
	www.cbn.com /entertainment/screen/movie_TheStepfordWives.aspx?option=print (830 words)

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