The Stepford Wives
GENRE: Comedy
MPAA RATING: (PG-13), for sexual content, thematic material and language
RUN TIME: 1 hr. 33 min.
RELEASE DATE 06/11/2004
STARRING: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close, Faith Hill,
Roger Bart
DIRECTOR(S): Frank Oz
PRODUCER(S): Donald De Line, Gabriel Grunfeld, Scott Rudin, Edgar
J. Scherick
WRITER(S): Ira Levin, Paul Rudnick
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures
Joanna Eberhart thinks she's made it to the top of her world. The youngest president in the history
of the EBS 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 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, who recently
moved to town with her irascible husband Dayle. And Roger Bannister, an architect who came to Stepford hoping to save their
rocky relationship with conservative partner Jerry, is wondering what is going on too. It's the wives. They're all like Claire
Wellington--beautiful, happy and unusually creative with crafts. They can bake a cake, paint the house, mow the lawn, play
with the kids and still greet their husbands in lacy lingerie at the end of a busy day. Disturbed by the stunning but subservient
women she meets in Stepford, Joanna grows increasingly uneasy. On the other hand, Walter couldn't be happier. He's especially
impressed by the Stepford Association, a fortress-like mansion in the center of town. The town, and the houses, and
this place--it's like a dream, enthuses Walter. Like the way life should be. Until Joanna Eberhart gets in the way.
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