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02/27/09
The Stepford Wives (1975)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:18
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Katharine Ross stars in this classic horror film as Joanna, a woman who moves to Stepford, Connecticut, along with her husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and her best friend Bobbie (Paula Prentiss).... [More]
Starring: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman
Director: Bryan Forbes
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10/18/08
The first hour takes what feels like two, and the last 44 minutes goes like an Indy car, so the pace is alternately snail's and Lamborghini's.
06/05/07
This oft-referenced tale of suburban wives who suddenly lose their vibrant individualism and become 'perfect housewives' may earn points for becoming a piece of Americana, but it's hardly excellent filmmaking.
01/01/00
William Goldman's leisurely script and Forbes' dull direction never quite capture the subtleties of Ira Levin's novel about an idyllic Connecticut commuter village where the housewives are a bunch of domesticated dummies.
06/24/06
Overlong and underdeveloped, this flimsy Bryan Forbes horror story (1975) would probably have made a decent television movie; but on the big screen and stretched to nearly two hours, it sags badly.
06/05/07
The misogynistic twist at the end is an acquiescence in the worst sort of way.
07/10/03
Suburban blandness.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/29/02
I can imagine similar material being directed by, say, Woody Allen, and coming out pointed and funny. Instead, director Bryan Forbes gets all solemn and spooky and goes for obvious effects like bolts of lightning and forbidding Gothic mansions.
10/23/04
Top CriticThe humor that remains in the movie is preesnted with such facetiousness one almost feels embarrassed to watch. You want to tell the actors to take it easy, since it's apparent that Bryan Forbes, the film's director, didn't.
05/09/05
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
10/06/05
No review available.
12/05/05
Critical of the suburban milieu as a petri dish where regressive sexist fantasies are cultivated.
06/10/04
No review available.
06/13/05
The Stepford Wives contains a number of timeless scenes that are the essence of women's fears about the patriarchal society in which they live.
01/21/04
Still holds up as part horror film, part social commentary
11/26/03
Overrated uber-70s style thriller with an intriguing premise.
08/02/04
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