Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Matthew Broderick, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Dylan Hartigan, Roger Bart, Lorri Bagley, David Marshall Grant, Tom Riis Farrell, Mike White, KaDee Strickland, Jon Lovitz, Matt Malloy, Jason Kravits, Christopher Evan Welch, Glenn Close, Robert Stanton, Andrea Anders, Bette Midler, Kate Shindle, Fallon Brooking, Faith Hill, Lisa Masters, Colleen Dunn
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Reviews
80
L.A. Weekly
Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Because the entire audience knows what's going on, the filmmakers hope to distract viewers from storytelling weaknesses with an urgent sense of style.
60
Variety
Another "remake" that merits the title in name only, The Stepford Wives isn't the "troubled" disaster that media reports have suggested it might be, yet nor do its oddly matched parts ever congeal into a fully formed creation.
50
Entertainment Weekly
At no time do the men -- that is, the straight ones -- believably hold the upper hand. In the new town of Stepford, there's no bitterness, no struggle, no competition, none of the scars of the sexual revolution. There's just gay apparel.
50
Close gets laughs, as does Bette Midler as a Jewish rebel. But the sting is gone.
