The Stepford Wives (2004)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 166
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 122
In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 27
In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
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Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Looking to take some time off to start over, Joanna and her husband, Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick), pull up stakes and move to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford. Walter takes to his new
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Nicole Kidman
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Matthew Broderick
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Bette Midler
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Glenn Close
Claire Wellington -
Christopher Walken
Mike Wellington -
Roger Bart
Roger Bannister -
David Marshall Grant
Jerry Harmon -
Jon Lovitz
David Markowitz -
Faith Hill
Sarah Sunderson -
Lorri Bagley
Charmaine Van Sant -
Tom Riis Farrell
Stan Peters -
Matt Malloy
Herb Sunderson -
Robert Stanton
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Colleen Dunn
Marianne Stevens -
Lisa Masters
Carol Wainwright -
Kate Shindle
Beth Peters -
Christopher Evan Welch
Ed Wainwright
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All Critics (180) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (122) | DVD (18)
To paraphrase Paul Rudnick's Premiere magazine movie-critic alter ego, Libby Gelman-Waxner: It's flat, cold, fork-resistant and tasteless, if you ask me.
Top CriticIt has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in.
It has two speeds -- obvious and more so.
Very good dialogue, the rest of this stuff just falls apart.
Satirizing The Stepford Wives is pointless.
So-so remake of campy '70s movie; not for kids.
There's not a single redeeming feature in this colossal over-budgeted waste of time...
This movie was a financial failure, but the DVD is well appointed.
As comedies go, it's actually fairly funny, albeit in a light, superficial way which either hides or exposes the fact that the plot is a thick tangle of mutual contradictions.
The remake of The Stepford Wives is the gayest major motion picture ever made - and remember, I saw Troy.
In 1975, The Stepford Wives ... seemed creepy and socially relevant. Today, it just feels dull.
What a sad, sad mess.
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Foreign Titles
- Die Frauen von Stepford (DE)
- Et l'homme créa la femme (FR)
