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	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.
		In 1975 the book was adapted into a feminist science fiction thriller directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson and Tina Louise.
		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/Stepford (730 words)

	The Stepford Wives
		Fears that "The Stepford Wives" would be a male-bashing extravaganza worthy of Andrea Dworkin proved, mercifully, to be unfounded.
		Less horror than satire, the film is mostly harmless; a jab at an ideal of how a woman should be and a poke at the insecurity men may have at associating with powerful (read: equal) women.
		Let’s be frank: this is not a film that lends itself to in-depth analyses.
	www.inkandashes.net /the_stepford_wives.html (715 words)

	The Stepford Wives Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		The original 1975 film, based on the book by Ira Levin, has a well-known premise (family relocates to seemingly perfect town only to find that the women-folk have been replaced with robots), but is not impaired by a fan base that would be ardently opposed to a remake.
		And in terms of the new spin, whereas the previous film was a dark thriller with a questionable attitude to feminism, the brand-spanking-new effort is a comedy, with a less suspicious reaction to the rights of women.
		So although The Stepford Wives is halfway to following the general rule for remakes (to recap – they’re not very good), thanks to the talents of Rudnick, Middler and co, what could have been a particularly pedestrian venture is miraculously transformed into a sharp and very funny comedy.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=215 (680 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Stepford Wives is a 1975 film directed by Bryan Forbes and based on the novel by Ira Levin.
		Her fellow Stepford housewives are too manicured and subservient for her taste, so when she tries and is unsuccessful at liberating them through a Women's Group, she is sorely disappointed and convinced that there is soemthing more threatening than what meets the eye in the little town of Stepford.
		Through the progression of the film, Joanna's fears are confirmed with the horrifying fact that the Stepford Men's Associationf is trading in their wives for more perfect, docile robots.
	www.tcnj.edu /~barnes3/pages/stepford.htm (340 words)

	Movies into Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Part of what made Prentiss memorable were her vulgar disruptions of the film’s clinical tone, her Borscht-belt wisecracking vocal rhythm that gave the audience someone to hold on to.
		In 1975, Bobbi’s transition from a messy human to a perfect android affirmed Joanna’s gnawing fears: the town husbands really were killing their wives, replacing them with electronic models who would submit and obey.
		That final scene, as Ross turns to face the camera as she, her husband and two children drive away from Stepford, imprinted the suggestion that perhaps Joanna hadn’t become a robot, that her newly acquired ultra-feminine frills were mere protective camouflage.
	www.moviesintofilm.com /stepford.htm (768 words)

	'Stepford Wives' to be released on video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They were "Stepford Wives," a term that entered the popular culture via the 1975 film The Stepford Wives, which, though a hit, has hardly been seen since.
		The Stepford Wives was one of the first films in which the term "sexist" was used.
		Since the film "just sat in the vault" for such a long time, "it was easy to master a print from the original elements," Constantine said.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/04/18/stepford-wives.0-4.html (864 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Living dolls
		At the premiere of the original Stepford Wives in 1975, the film's director Bryan Forbes was assaulted with an umbrella by a woman he described as a "militant libber".
		At the beginning of the women's movement, men and women feared a disaster of Stepford proportions: men would never cope with the new threat to their status, and women would be made to pay.
		The Stepford Men's Association is the constant in both films; the 19th-century New England mansion is the only location to have been re-used from the original.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1264339,00.html (1616 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) - About the Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Filmed on a country property amid rolling hills in rural New Jersey, the fantastical atmosphere of a huge red barn draped in red, white and blue bunting was only heightened by the picture-perfect food, game booths and gingham-dressed Stepford wives teetering around on high heels.
		Making her feature film debut in “The Stepford Wives” is Grammy Award nominee Faith Hill, who portrays Sarah Sunderson, the former CEO of an airline whose husband turns her into a “robotically challenged” model of a Stepford wife.
		She made her professional debut in the Australian film “Bush Christmas” at the age of 14, but it was her role three years later in the miniseries “Vietnam” that made her a virtual overnight star in Australia.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /stepford_wives_about.htm (5240 words)

	The Film Fanatic :: Rewind: The Stepford Wives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film has become somewhat of a cult-classic with it’s depiction of the battle between the sexes and the term “Stepford Wive” has become synonymous with perfection.
		It’s 1975 and Joanna Eberhard (Katherine Ross), a photographer and her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), a lawyer, decide to leave their hectic life in New York City and move to the idyllic town of Stepford in Connecticut.
		She also notes that the woman/housewives in Stepford are quite bland and the only subjects they seem to discuss is their love of housework and what the best laundry detergents are.
	www.tashitagg.com /forum/weblog_entry.php?e=1607 (1004 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - The Stepford Wives
		The original "Stepford Wives" was based on the same premise as the classic 1956 sci-fi Invasion of the Body Snatchers, albeit with one difference: In Stepford, only the women are turned into pods.
		In the new film, the leadership is assumed by a happily married couple.
		The original film had a point of view, telling the story from the perspective of Joanna, the threatened wife who made the audience feel the horror of suburban conformism and anonymity.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=17 (1289 words)

	Stepford Wives, The London Movie Review
		The original 1975 film version of The Stepford Wives, itself based on the novel by Ira Levin, starred Paula Prentiss and Katherine Ross and was a dark, genuinely creepy horror flick with a relevant point to make about men’s fear of feminism.
		However, although the film is mildly amusing for the most part, it crashes and burns spectacularly in the final reel, leaving a twisted, mangled, nonsensical mess.
		The original twist behind The Stepford Wives is well known enough for the term ‘Stepford Wife’ to have become a by-word for ‘creepily perfect’.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_2149.html (528 words)

	THE STEPFORD WIVES Joel Johnson Wolf Moon Press A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion
		Interestingly, the film was attacked by many feminists who assumed because the ending did not provide any comeuppance for the men that the film sided with the enslavement of women and the eradication of women’s individuality.
		The film begins promisingly enough with Nicole Kidman’s EBS Network executive Joanna Eberhard (Katherine Ross’s Joanna Eberhard in the 1975 film was an aspiring photographer, so clearly Joanna has come a long way in thirty years) introducing her new crop of shows.
		(This more carnal view of the Stepford wives may have been closer to William Goldman’s original screenplay for the 1975 version, as he had intended the women to be attired like Playboy bunnies instead of in sedate dresses.) This presentation of the wives certainly does contribute to the campiness.
	www.wolfmoonpress.com /Movies/stepfordwives.htm (1405 words)

	Horrordvds.com - The Stepford Wives: Silver Anniv. DVD review
		The Stepford wives are clearly representative of the conformity of the average middle class housewife.
		The beauty of the film is in slowly building on Joanna's paranoia, and making you wonder if in fact there is something wrong with the women after all.
		The Stepford Wives is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is enhanced for anamorphic screens.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/n-z/sw (1442 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - The Stepford Wives (1975)
		The term "Stepford wife" has been in the American vocabulary for the last couple of decades, despite the fact that the film has been out of circulation for years.
		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.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/s/stepford-wives.html (1008 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004_ \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 1975 film version, starring a winsomely horrified Katharine Ross, was a creepy thriller aquiver with "Twilight Zone" paranoia and cautionary, what-if chills.
		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.
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/S/thestepfordwives.html (602 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Stepford Wives [1975]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a film where you can't avoid comparing the 1975 original (this film) to the 2004 "remake", although you probably should avoid doing so, since they belong in entirely different genres.
		The tone of this film leans towards suspense as tension is building throughout the film as hints are given and Joanna's fear mounts as to what is happening and what may very well happen to her.
		Filmed in the 70's and directed by British born Bryan Forbes, it is rather dated now and the discerning contemporary viewer may find it more amusing than sinister.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002B96Q6 (1613 words)

	DVD Times - The Stepford Wives (2004)
		Worst of all, the Stepford Wives themselves are hardly the knockdown gorgeous babes required by the story.
		The film sticks to the plot of the original for about three quarters of its length then goes off onto a whole new tack towards the end.
		Stepford turns out not to be a male fantasy but a woman’s pre-feminist fairy-tale ending.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13369 (1825 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 /film/titles/stepfordwives (1646 words)

	Cool Cinema Trash.com: The Stepford Wives (1975)
		The only thing Stepford wives have on their minds is baking, getting their floors to shine, and the wonders of Easy-On spray starch.
		Some believe that the film is a taught thriller, a cautionary tale about the dangers of conformity with humorous moments that are meant as subversive satire about taking the ideals of suburban perfection to a frightening extreme.
		But where the Roman Polanski film version of Rosemary's Baby (1968) remains timeless, as scary today as it was thirty-five years ago, the film version of The Stepford Wives is so steeped in the gender politics of the 1970's that it can't help but show its age.
	www.coolcinematrash.com /movies/stepfordwives.htm (1471 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although I haven't seen the original version of "The Stepford Wives", i understood the general idea before i watched this years remake.
		However, this knowledge makes the "surprise" twists during the film easily predictable, although the female-dominated-male-dominated-world one at the was a bit of a surprise.
		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.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0327162 (419 words)

	Astro-Noetics.com :: The Uranus Film
		film and yet serious enough and legitimately scary to be thought of only as a fl comedy.
		Through technology, the men of Stepford destroy their real wives and replace them with robotic wives that will fulfill their desires, ignore their shortcomings, who will be totally compliant and obedient, and physically perfect.
		Whatever the case may be, when treated with respect and when in harmony and balance, the archetype of Uranus is a necessary ingredient for a full and rich life—it is the very divine spark of life.
	www.astro-noetics.com /uranus_film_15.html (820 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Stepford Wives [2004]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Stepford is a little strange: The husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries.
		This film is played mostly for laughs and is full of all sorts of silly (shall I say stupid?) updates, like having a gay couple instead of a fl couple and making the wives (prior to their coming to Stepford) very accomplished--CEOs, scientists, etc., while the husbands are Neanderthal nerds.
		In 1975, Katharine Ross starred in the original THE STEPFORD WIVES, in which an unsuspecting wife, Joanna Eberhart, moves with her loving husband to an idyllic town, where all the wives are suspiciously perfect and their husbands are up to something (besides Boys' Night Out playing cards) in a secretive men's association.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006GCZZ6 (1455 words)

	The Stepford Wives -- FilmGuru.Net
		The community of Stepford is, in a word, surreal.
		If you've seen the original film -- or even paid attention to the trailer -- you know what the secret is, but I won't spoil it for you.
		The Stepford Wives tapped into the male desire to resist that change, and took it to its horrific extreme.
	www.filmguru.net /reviews/2004/040612.html (633 words)

	The Stepford Wives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Story: This unnecessary remake of the classic 1975 film (from Ira Levin's 1972 novel) has a few good things going for it but sadly it misses the mark on many levels.
		In case you live on the moon, the town of Stepford, CT is the perfect place to live.
		The original, filmed 30 years ago at the cusp of female liberation, was perfect for the changing times.
	members.aol.com /lobosreviews/stepford.html (569 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Classic revival or movie cash-in?
		The Stepford Wives come to the UK on Friday, the latest in a procession of movies to be re-made for a new audience.
		As the housewives of Stepford are transformed into robots for their husbands' pleasure, so the hit 1975 film has been rejuvenated with Nicole Kidman as the star.
		Film fan site Noise Culture claims re-makes of movies such as Ringu, La Femme Nikita and La Cage Aux Folles are for "people who are too stupid to read subtitles".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3929867.stm (823 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gone is the bite of the original 1975 film, a creepy piece of work that threw an intense anti-male message into an already volatile feminist movement.
		While the original is by no means a perfect film (though it is a cult “classic”), it does succeed in maintaining a frightening tone throughout, and the ending of the film is chilling and truly scary.
		The new film is helmed by director Frank Oz, who takes the story in a different direction and dips the “battle of the sexes” idea into a pool of dark comedy.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /stepford_wives.htm (1463 words)

	1975 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
		July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
		November 5 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1975_in_film (293 words)

	Film Comment
		These filmsâ titles are particularly useful because they describe a feeling for which words donât exist - the feeling that weâve been overtaken by larger forces or gutted as part of a social plan or readied for the network or (and here the inheritor of this memeâs tradition becomes clear) the matrix.
		The filmâs heroine, Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman), is a glacial TV network executive whose career has been destroyed by a string of exploitative reality shows gone bad and whose marriage has been whittled away by her burlesque workaholism.
		The film, perhaps rightly, has made a decision that women viewers wonât be entertained by watching their social fears morph onscreen.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/7-8-2004/stepfordwives.htm (1292 words)

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