The Stepford Wives (2004)
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Critic Consensus: In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
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Cast
as Joanna Eberhard
as Mike Wellington
as Claire Wellington
as Walter Kresby
as Bobbie Markowitz
as Hank
as Dave Markowitz
as Tara
as Jerry Harmon
as Herb Sunderson
as Roger Bannister
as Security Guard
as Sarah Sunderson
as Himself
as Carol Wainwright
as Barbara
as Ted Van Sant
as Beth Peters
as Helen Devlin
as Security Guard
as Charmaine Van Sant
as Stan Peters
as Additional Stepford Husband
as `Balance of Power' Host
as Heather
as `I Can Do Better' Host
as Tonkiro
as Additional Stepford Husband
as Square Dance Musician
as Ed Wainwright
as Dancer
as Max Markowitz
as Marianne Stevens
as Nurse
as Adam Markowitz
as Kimberly Kresby
as Vic Stevens
as Dancer
as Peter Kresby
as Stepford Guard
as Dancer
as Bob
as Dancer
as Additional Stepford Wife
as Ben Markowitz
as Square Dance Musician
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
Critic Reviews for The Stepford Wives
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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.
It 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.
None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable.
Audience Reviews for The Stepford Wives
Weird film. Creepy how they controlled them like that and it was a great fictional story.
Super Reviewer
The 1975 version is much better, but this version really surprised me. I had low expectations, but overall I enjoyed it. It's silly and cheesy in some parts, but it still has enough of the creepy elements to keep the audience interested. I prefer the dark mood of the old version more, but I thought the satire in this film was good. A different interpretation of the story is all. A good adaptation, overall. Very funny, i recommend it.
Super Reviewer
Aside from a decent cast, this is a train wreck of a film. It is completely unmemorable and has little meaning aside from cheap laughs. It attempts to be a comedy, a horrible decision on the film maker's part. It could've been a decent remake, but it just became a failure. They just had no respect for the source material or the horror aspect. The feminism is too obvious and overdone. There is no real threat, it all seems to work out fine in the end. The husbands seem more like victims themselves rather than pathetic losers trying to make servant wives.
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The Stepford Wives Quotes
| Claire Wellington: | Where would people never notice a town full of robots? *gasp* Connecticut!" |