Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Black Comedy, Satire, Robots, Marriage, Campy, Mad Scientists
Tagline: Make one.
Plot: Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) thinks she’s made it to the top of her world.The youngest president in the history of the LBS television network, she also has an attentive husband and two beautiful children. On the surface, Joanna’s life appears to be, well, perfect... until one catastrophic day when it all comes crashing down around her. Fired from her job, her perfect marriage in trouble, unable to remember where her kids go to school, Joanna is starting to look like a candidate for electroshock therapy. Yes, there’s nothing like a nervous breakdown to make Joanna and her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) reexamine their priorities, pack up the family and make a fresh start in the idyllic suburban paradise of Stepford, Connecticut. But something strange is happening in the quaint little town of Stepford, and Joanna is suspicious. So is Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler), who recently moved to town with her irascible frat-boyish husband Dave (Jon Lovitz). And Roger Bannister (Roger Bart), an architect who came to Stepford hoping to save his rocky relationship with his conservative partner Jerry (David Marshall Grant), is wondering what’s going on, too. It’s the wives. They’re all like Claire Wellington (Glenn Close) — beautiful, happy and unusually creative with crafts. They
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 In order for character-building material to work, it's necessary to start with legitimate characters. There aren't any in The Stepford Wives. All we have is robots on auto-pilot, and that appears to extend beyond who's on screen.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Even Nicole Kidman can't save this brainless remake of the overrated '70s film. Robotic, retro wives are fine, but not even the creepiest husband has ever been aroused by a tiara.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
"The Stepford Wives" is little more than an anecdote, and like all good storytellers, Oz and Rudnick don't meander on their way to the punchline.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Ostensibly a remake of a '70s film, "The Stepford Wives" shows the danger of taking the story out of the '70s but not taking the '70s out of the story.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
Wicked, wicked. And yet, not quite wicked enough to break the movie out of its teeny-tiny cul-de-sac.--Desson Thomson (Washington Post)
The Stepford Wives is a devilshly dark comedy that says you don't have to be perfect, to be in the perfect relationship. It's a highly entertaining movie, and while it has some flaws, it doesn't really have a lot of them.  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
How strange that this one is billed as a comedy, but it manages to be a lot less amusing than the earlier edition was. It is simply a dopey and unnecessary flick, harmless in its intentions, but incredibly flawed in its execution.  --Danny Baldwin (BucketReviews.com)
This is not just a bad film, it is a patently offensive one that will do much towards turning the battle of the sexes from a Cold War into something much warmer but not in a good way. The only thing scary or funny in this film is that someone thought that it would be either scary or funny, shudder, both.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
It's harmless, it's without controversy, and it doesn't have a shred of insight into, well, anything really, but The Stepford Wives succeeds in something that, in a way, is preferable to any of those—it makes you laugh.  --John Sylva (The Movie Insider)
The once juicy horror, comedy, and science fiction concoction has been replaced with a silly twist-on-a-twist, AOL and dumb blonde jokes, and Bette Midler. This is hardly an upgrade. C---Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
A wholly uninspired and shoddily constructed remake of the 1975 original, this version of ‘The Stepford Wives’ is a big budget affair replete with a great cast that’s forced to flounder with poor material that only works once in a great while...--Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
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Ira Levin
Rosemary's Baby, Sliver, The Boys from Brazil | |
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 | Bette Midler
The First Wives Club, Fantasia/2000, Ruthless People |
 | Glenn Close
Mars Attacks!, Air Force One, Dangerous Liaisons |
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 | Faith Hill
VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross, 50 Sexiest Video Moments, The 2000 Billboard Music Awards |
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David Arnold
Independence Day, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day |
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| The film refuses to either go all out with comedy, or emphasize the suspense and horror elements. With only a few moments of laughter or excitement, it's plain to see that this Stepford is far from the paradise it sets out to be. --Mark Sells (CineScene)
...this version of Ira Levin’s novel has a few bizarre twists on the original story which both mirror the progress women have made in the last 30 years and add a final comment on the gender wars that are the theme of both films. 7/10--Avril Carruthers (Movie-Vault.com)
Right from the start, as the movie spoofs reality TV, it reeks of easy, toothless satire. --Kevin N. Laforest (Montreal Film Journal)
The its cast is mostly strong and its clumsy charms substantial – enough to make this flawed cautionary tale worth watching, as long as your expectations aren’t too high. 72/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
The end result is pretty much what I expected, which is a strange conglomeration of ideas, agendas, themes and tones, some of which work, but many of which simply do not connect and result in a jumbled product that doesn't really know what it wants to beor say. 4/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
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