The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
by Frank Oz
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Actor: Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close, Matthew Broderick, Nicole KidmanDirector: Frank Oz
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Donald De Line
Producer: Edgar J. Scherick
Producer: Gabriel Grunfeld
Producer: Keri Selig
Producer: Leslie J. Converse
Writer: Ira Levin
Writer: Paul Rudnick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: HYSTERICAL!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is brilliant. Amazing cast. Great one-liners. To not like this film is to lack a sense of humor. Bottom line.DVD Review: Not even Nicole Kidman could save it
Summary: 1 Stars
Oh so lame. The original K. Ross version was great, this one was pedantic and completely uninspired. A waste of Kidman's ability.DVD Review: OneStar only because Amazon doesn't have ZeroStars
Summary: 1 Stars
They tried to remarket this trash as "comedy" only after the public discovered how truly bad the movie was. It really is BAD.DVD Review: Stepford
Summary: 4 Stars
Unlike the original 1975 Stepford Wives which was a horror film, this remake was a comedy. It was really funny with a great cast. Bette Midler had some of the best lines and was my favorite.DVD Review: "Oh, I feel like Nancy Drew in the mystery of the mid-life crisis"
Summary: 4 Stars
Frank Oz's eagerly awaited comedy/thriller remake of THE STEPFORD WIVES turned out to be a great big fizzer when it was released in the summer of 2004. Whilst it does pale in comparison to the earlier 1975 Bryan Forbes film (based on the controversial Ira Levin novel), I believe that the remake of STEPFORD WIVES still has the ability to stir debate and argument about the delicate balance of power in married relationships.
When hard-driven TV executive Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman in a most unattractive brunette dutch-boy haircut) is fired from her job following the deadly aftermath of one of her television projects, husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) arranges for the family to relocate to the small Connecticut gated community of Stepford.
There, Joanna's very principals are undermined as she finds herself in a world of perfect picket fences, Barbie doll-beautiful women and their very ordinary husbands. When Joanna and Walter finally discover the horrific secret behind Stepford's glossy facade, will it be too late? THE STEPFORD WIVES, even in this watered-down comedy version, still asks the potent question of how successful is a wife 'allowed' to be until she begins threatening her husband's masculinity.
Bette Midler and Roger Bart add the bulk of the comedy with their supporting roles as two more cynical Stepford residents trying to rail against the system; and as always Glenn Close is a scene-stealing marvel as Stepford's resident grande dame (a kooky performance I love to refer to as "June Cleaver on smack")! Nicole Kidman never does comedy especially well but has a charming presence, and Matthew Broderick is always great playing the nerdy nebbish. Recommended.
Description of The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
In THE STEPFORD WIVES, Walter (Broderick) and Joanna (Kidman) Eberhart are the newest residents in a suburban neighborhood in Stepford. Seeing that the women she surrounds herself with all seem to be cut from the same mold, and are seemingly incapable of thinking for themselves, Joanna begins to think something suspicious is going on in Stepford. Upon realizing that her friends have been replaced by robots and that she's next on the list, Joanna and Walter decide to turn the tables and expose the truth about what's really been going on in Stepford.An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. 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. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer
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