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Jun 11, 2004 · It's an enticing premise, an opening for wicked feminist satire, but the 1975 movie tilted toward horror instead of comedy. Now here's a version that tilts the other way, and I like it a little better. The experience is like a new production of a well-known play.
Bobby gets the notion that there must be something in Stepford itself -- something in the drinking water, maybe? -- that's turning these women into parodies of the ideal housewife. She and Joanna take a water sample into the city, but that's not it.
Movie Review. Nestled somewhere in Connecticut, the upscale suburban utopia of Stepford offers residents an insular community with a personality—and secrets—all its own. That’s where Joanna and Walter choose to start fresh after Joanna loses her job as a big-shot television producer and does a stint in a mental hospital.
- Frank Oz
Jun 10, 2004 · At the end of Bryan Forbes’s The Stepford Wives, Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) confronts the man, Dale Coba (Patrick O’Neal), responsible for the robotization of Stepford Village’s women. Desperately clinging to reason, she demands a rationale for his cult of transmogrification.
Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful 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.
- Frank Oz
- 3 min
Jun 19, 2004 · One thing the studios have going in their favor here is that The Stepford Wives has actually reached a very odd place in the pop culture zeitgeist. It captured a moment and unique idea so brilliantly that everyone knows about it.
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Jun 15, 2004 · As Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska famously opined, “Comedy is tragedy reversed.” Director Frank Oz’s The Stepford Wives—an updated version of the 1975 cult classic starring Katherine Ross as a career woman trapped in a hellish suburb of docile housewives—enthusiastically takes this outlook to heart. Substituting horror for hilarity ...
