The Stepford Wives

"The wives of Stepford have a secret."

Jun 11 2004 PG-13 1h 33m
Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

Plot

Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events, suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class, and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the acerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a Jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful and, somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?

Written by

Ira Levin, Paul Rudnick

Directed by

Frank Oz

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

CJ Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount, De Line Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

3 wins total

Scores
# of Votes
71,580
Average Rating
5.4 out of 10
Metascore
42
Popularity
NA