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	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.
		The sets and costumes for The Stepford Wives are beautiful, and unquestionably lend ambiance to the movie itself.
		The script is stilted and entirely unsurprising (one update from the original is the addition of a gay couple which is actually one of the few things that works in the movie).
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2004/stepford-wives.html (624 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)

	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.
		Sleekly shot by cinematographer Rob Hahn (2000's "Loser"), "The Stepford Wives" moves at a bright, fast clip for its first two-thirds, rarely faltering in its amalgamation of the mystery and comedy genres.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/s/04_stepfordwives.htm (957 words)

	The Stepford Wives: Special Collector's Edition (2004)
		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.
		The Stepford Wives appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The movie suffers from a mix of flaws but it presents good performances from a terrific cast and mainly gives us a lively and amusing exercise.
	www.dvdmg.com /stepfordwives2004.shtml (2298 words)

	SPACE.com -- Movie Review -- The Stepford Wives
		The movie packed a sense of creepy outrage in its tale of a town where the men really, but really, are married to idealized Barbie dolls.
		The movie seems unwilling to commit to a point of view, beyond being fond of the Bobbi and Roger characters but neither Bobbi nor Roger is remotely threatening to traditional male control.
		In sci-fi narrative terms, it also commits a colossal blunder midway through for a laugh we are shown something physical about the Stepford wives that the movie later contradicts totally; it looks as though the film not only has a new ending, but that it wasnt edited to really accommodate the changes.
	www.space.com /entertainment/stepford_review.html (771 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 (754 words)

	the stepford wives (2004)
		But this Stepford Wives is pointedly set now, when fabulous network executive Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) gloats over her new reality shows that pit gender against gender.
		When Walter is surrounded by the shadowy, red-jacketed men of Stepford, led by a leonine Christopher Walken in full sinister bloom, Stepford Wives hits the tone it seems to be straining for.
		When Glenn Close leads a group of Stepford wives in a ridiculous aerobics session that employs household-cleaning motions, we're not supposed to be shocked; we're supposed to laugh (unfortunately, we don't).
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/stepfordwives.html (589 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) - About the Production
		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.
		While there is no real town of Stepford in the state of Connecticut, there are indications that Ira Levin, the novel’s author, was inspired by the small towns of Fairfield County, beautiful suburban communities with enormous homes and manicured lawns.
		As for the colorful pants and wild tuxedo jackets on the men, Roth says she was inspired by Lily Pulitzer fabrics and madras plaids that you might see at a country club party, and in the end, the best word for the whole scene was simply extravagant.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /stepford_wives_about.htm (5174 words)

	Amazon.com: The Stepford Wives (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Nicole Kidman,Matthew Broderick,Bette Midler,Glenn ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby 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.
		In THE STEPFORD WIVES, Walter (Broderick) and Joanna (Kidman) Eberhart are the newest residents in a suburban neighborhood in Stepford.
		Ira Levin's cautionary novel, "The Stepford Wives", was a fascinating fable of the ultimate male backlash to feminism; in 1975, director Bryan Forbes turned the novel into a chilling variation of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", as innocent wives are substituted by zombie-like robots, their husbands bonding in a smugly evil male cult.
	www.amazon.com /Stepford-Wives-Widescreen-Nicole-Kidman/dp/B0002W4UDE (2091 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		In The Stepford Wives, Nicole Kidman is Joanna Eberhart, a quirky, but headstrong woman who is looking to start a new life after losing her job as a television programmer.
		She and her nebbish husband (played by Matthew Broderick) move to the strange town of Stepford, a high class neighborhood populated by domineering men and their rather odd wives, who love them desperately and seem to cater to them hand and foot.
		The original Stepford Wives was odd to be sure, but the strangeness of the that film gave it a fun sort of Rosemary’s Baby sort of creepy appeal and unconsciously so.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2004/the-stepford-wives.php (915 words)

	The Stepford Wives Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Like the wives of Stepford, this movie aims to please without creating any waves, and the result is a disaster.
		Such is the case with The Stepford Wives, the misbegotten "comic" remake of the 1974 thriller.
		Although Joanna is initially put off by Stepford society matron Claire Wellington (Glenn Close) and her proudly vacuous friends, Walter quickly becomes a member of the top secret Stepford Men's Society, headed by Claire's creepy husband Mike (Christopher Walken—who else?).
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=139096 (1865 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		Beginning with a few rather bad casting choices and ending with a scattered and inconsistent script, the movie is hampered by several uninspiring story decisions that leave the actors in a lurch.
		Where this statement might have made an emotional impact on viewers in the mid-seventies, today’s Stepford Wives are nothing but shallow fodder for a Hollywood remake.
		The Stepford Wives of 2004 holds far less promise for viewers and is rather messy on most of its uncreative levels.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/thestepfordwives.html (974 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004)
		The Stepford Wives is a brilliant comment on the changes we've seen in male/female roles over the past few decades.
		Given the movie's premise, the performances of the female cast members are of special importance.
		The Stepford Wives is good for a matinee, and it will lose very little on the small screen.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jun04/stepford.htm (600 words)

	The Stepford Wives review (2004) Nicole Kidman - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		Yet another superfluous remake in 2004, The Stepford Wives takes good concepts and themes from Ira Levin's book of the same name, adds a heaping helping of slapstick, and then proceeds to lose sight of nearly every comedic device that makes the story special.
		The Stepford Wives is, ironically, a victim of its own satire, becoming the mechanical, slavishly deferent pleaser of a film that hasn't an iota of the independent thinking the book or original movie had.
		Like the wives themselves, it's all aesthetics and smiles, dressing everyone up in proper form in the hopes of making us love it for the way it makes us feel, instead of stimulating our minds with intelligence.
	www.qwipster.net /stepfordwives.htm (653 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004): Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Midler, Glenn Close - PopMatters Film Review
		Unsurprisingly, Paramount's DVD of The Stepford Wives takes some glee in the artifice and surreality of this particular state of mind, as indicated by its extras (best-deleted scenes and a "gag reel"), as well as redundant featurettes.
		Stepford, the mindset everyone is so giddy to remake, is a matter of performance, namely, the performance of confidence and privilege, whether by lady robots or the silly men who want them.
		Though an overtly gay Stepford Wives is certainly conceivable (as the original film is all about dragging feminine stereotypes), Oz and Rudnick's evidently rewritten and recut incarnation doesn't have the requisite teeth.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/stepford-wives-dvd.shtml (1129 words)

	Cool Cinema Trash.com: The Stepford Wives (1975)
		With a story that relies heavily on the battle between the sexes, The Stepford Wives is a cult classic that serves as a time capsule of 1970's fashion and feminism.
		The only thing Stepford wives have on their minds is baking, getting their floors to shine, and the wonders of Easy-On spray starch.
		The idea that a group of men would trade in their liberated but loving wives for cold, unfeeling but "perfect" robots, is extreme to say the least.
	www.coolcinematrash.com /movies/stepfordwives.htm (1471 words)

	The Stepford Wives (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be.
		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.
		In fact, the movie hints that the real threat to American life is not gender domination by men or by women, but the stresses of the workplace.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /stepford_wives.htm (1397 words)

	THE STEPFORD WIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Distant is Stepford, Connecticut, an immaculate gated community of trimmed hedges, picket fences and gargantuan town houses.
		When one of the Stepford wives malfunctions in an early scene, sparks fly from her before she is sent away to be programmed -- proof positive that audiences today cannot be trusted to try and put the facts together themselves.
		The film showcases her cutthroat career early on before juxtaposing it later on with the lifeless, ambitious-less careers of the wives of Stepford, presenting the viewers with wives as either nasty opportunists or braindead drones, a dichotomy that leaves perilously few options.
	www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/s/stepfordwives/review.htm (862 words)

	DVD Review: Stepford Wives (2004)
		Once they arrive, the couple is confronted with a series of flowery wives who seem to be happy on a level that one would guess is drug-induced.
		Lead by Claire Wellington (Glenn Close), the wives of the town are unquestioning and seem to only exist to serve their men.
		Oz does enthusiastically discuss the movie, chatting about working with the cast, trying to achieve the intended look of the picture, story issues, locations and more.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews5/stepford2004dvd.html (1007 words)

	nofreelist.com - The Stepford Wives (2004)
		The Stepford Wives (2004) is also mentioned in mino's review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
		In fact, there are three different movies that could be made here: an insightful satire/morality play, a toungue-in-cheek retro comedy, and an actual thriller.
		I don't know if this was the case, but the movie has that ‘butchered by a test audience’ feel to it, and it never once manages to find a rhythm.
	nofreelist.com /review/?movieid=881 (729 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Stepford Wives [2004]: Video: Nicole Kidman,Matthew Broderick,Bette Midler,Christopher Walken,Roger ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We are thinking robots before the movie starts, we are thinking when some of the Stepford wives act like robots, and we are pretty much thinking robots right until a short education films provides a different explanation for the creation of the Stepford Wives.
		For example, it seems that the wives of Stepford are not just women infected with first-stage feminism (Katharine Ross's Joanna in the original wanted to be a photographer, whereas Kidman's Joanna was a network programmer), but they are feminist amazons, who had been CEO's, judges, and brain surgeons.
		The complaint of the men in the Stepford Men's Association is that they were turned into women as they supported their wives, and is at that point that this movie went off the tracks for me.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stepford-Wives-Nicole-Kidman/dp/B0006GVJ8K (810 words)

	celluloid eyes: The Stepford Wives (2004) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But then I heard that the 2004 movie (which I would consider both a re-adaptation of the book and a remake of the 1975 film) was going to be a dark comedy.
		The guys are all schlumpy nerds who were resentful of their wives' successes, but one suspects that this type of guy was lured to Stepford for that reason, and it doesn't mean all guys are like that.
		The movie surived the strike against it of Ruth Gordon playing an evil character, because she was a funny evil character.
	celluloideyes.com.cob-web.org:8888 /blog/archive/000688.html (1627 words)

	THE STEPFORD WIVES
		They have made plans to move to the seemingly idyllic Connecticut town of Stepford, a gated community where all the women are perfect and all the men seem much too nerdy to have gotten such beautiful wives.
		As the patriarch of Stepford, Christopher Walken is, as usual, quirky but not as effective as he can be because of the poor lines given to him.
		As Joanna’s solitary friend in Stepford, Bette Midler gives perhaps the film’s best performance as she lends her character a dry, sly wit that garners some laughs.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /stepford2.html (580 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Stepford Wives" movie review (2004) "The Stepford Wives" review, Frank Oz, Nicole Kidman, Matthew ...
		So ripe for lampoonery that the word "Stepford" has become an adjective ironically slapped on anything deemed too Norman Rockwell-esque, the original picture's concept of anti-feminism taken to a paranoid extreme is fodder for raillery in Rudnick's script.
		He can't even decide if the automaton wives in his "Stepford" are robots (impervious to fire and prone to shooting sparks from their necks) or real women (brainwashed with microchip implants) who are capable of snapping out of their halcyon daze if their programming fails.
		The wives becoming the ultimate gadgets for their technology-happy hubbies is barely touched on, and the fact that all this is grounds for any divorce -- should the robotic spouses ever become human again -- is never addressed at all.
	www.splicedonline.com /04reviews/stepfordwives.html (919 words)

	The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, the book the movies are based on
		What the men did to their wives in The Stepford Wives, women now often do to themselves, right down to augmenting their breasts to conform to an absurd ideal of beauty.
		To update the story, it should be the wives in Stepford who, to their husbands' horror, willingly replace themselves with perfect robots.
		The Stepford Wives (1972), a satire about the importance to men of subservient wives, was filmed as a serious thriller in 1974 and tongue-in-cheek in 2004.
	members.aol.com /tirfell/levin.htm (755 words)

	2004 The Stepford Wives - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
		A young couple moves from Manhattan to the upper class suburb of Stepford, Conn., and discover that the Stepford men are replacing their wives with compliant robots.
		For months the gossip from “The Stepford Wives” set was awash in tales of temper tantrums, re-writes, re-shoots, and diva feuds.
		The gated community of Stepford, Connecticut seems to be run fist-handed by Claire Wellington (Glenn Close) and her husband Mike (Christopher Walken).
	www.celebritywonder.com /movie/2004_The_Stepford_Wives.html (740 words)

	The Stepford Wives Movie Trailer (Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick) Empire Movies
		Joanna (Kidman) and her husband (Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors.
		The wives living in the houses around them all seem to be too perfect, with bland, character-less personalities.
		robotic, the result of the husbands banding together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are subservient, sexually compliant and devoid of any distinguishing character traits.
	www.empiremovies.com /movies/2004/the_stepford_wives.shtml (213 words)

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