The Stepford Wives (Widescreen Edition)
Starring:Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Dylan Hartigan, Fallon Brooking, Faith Hill, Matt Malloy, Kate Shindle, Tom Riis Farrell, Lorri Bagley, Robert Stanton (II), Lisa Masters, Christopher Evan Welch, Colleen Dunn (II), Jason Kravits
Director: Frank Oz
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer
Description
In THE STEPFORD WIVES, Walter (Broderick) and Joanna (Kidman) Eberhart are the newest residents in a suburban neighborhood in Stepford. Seeing that the women she surrounds herself with all seem to be cut from the same mold, and are seemingly incapable of thinking for themselves, Joanna begins to think something suspicious is going on in Stepford. Upon realizing that her friends have been replaced by robots and that she's next on the list, Joanna and Walter decide to turn the tables and expose the truth about what's really been going on in Stepford.
Average customer rating:
- Nicole Kidman... a robot???
- Weird......
- Nice Twist at the End
- Was this really necessary?
- I think it's great movie
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The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: Nicole Kidman , Matthew Broderick , Bette Midler , Glenn Close , and Christopher Walken
Director: Frank Oz
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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- The Stepford Wives
- The Manchurian Candidate (Widescreen Edition)
- The Forgotten
- Bewitched (Special Edition)
- The Terminal (Full Screen Edition)
ASIN: B0002W4UDE
Release Date: 2004-11-09 |
Amazon.com
An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer
Description
In THE STEPFORD WIVES, Walter (Broderick) and Joanna (Kidman) Eberhart are the newest residents in a suburban neighborhood in Stepford. Seeing that the women she surrounds herself with all seem to be cut from the same mold, and are seemingly incapable of thinking for themselves, Joanna begins to think something suspicious is going on in Stepford. Upon realizing that her friends have been replaced by robots and that she's next on the list, Joanna and Walter decide to turn the tables and expose the truth about what's really been going on in Stepford.
Customer Reviews:
Nicole Kidman... a robot???.......2007-07-03
Ira Levin's famous suburban Gothic THE STEPFORD WIVES already has so much black comic potential built into its premise that making this remake of the much loved 1975 film into an all-out comedy was a mistake from the get-go. So was assembling the creative team and the cast: director Frank Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick are hardly known for their light and subtle touches, nor are Bette Midler and Jon Lovitz (in important supporting roles). And Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, and Nicole Kidman really aren't even comic actors. Kidman seems an especially prankishly bad choice to play a herpoine whose humanity is in peril. With her incredibly thin body and flawless wrinkle-free skin, she hardly seems appropriate to be passionately extolling the necessity of human imperfection. For some insane reason Oz and Rudnick decided to make Stepford not just upwardly mobile but berserkly and opulently wealthy, so all the satiric points Levin was making about middle-class suburbia seem obviated.
Weird.............2007-05-15
Not exactly sure what the movie's point is, except that robotic women are a nightmare. Very different, and I must say that any director that wanted to do a movie like this, doesn't have enough in his life to do.
Nice Twist at the End.......2007-04-26
This movie had it all. suspense, very good humor, some action but the story line was pretty good. I don't see how some writers didn't get this movie. Exceptional actors I mean like the best stars. And the location was very good. I think the people are really like that in Connecticut lol. Just kidding. But this is a good movie to see and own. I think most will enjoy it. They could have done a better job with the lab scene. But all in all a good movie.
Was this really necessary?.......2007-04-18
The original was a very effective, cautionary horror tale. The remake can't seem to make up its mind what it wants to be -- it definitely isn't scary -- and it doesn't include what I thought to be one of the more important bits from the original, the exchange between Katherine Ross' character and the psychiatrist before she gets taken back home and roboticized. I will say the revised ending does add some important food for thought.
I think it's great movie.......2007-01-28
Am i alone in thinking it's cool movie? Maybe not whole 5 stars, but still very nice, hilarious and relaxing. Very nice actors: Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler makes this movie very funny.
But really they could have done a much deeper version of this film and it would have been fantastic. Matthew Broderick wasn't a convincing husband for Nicole Kidman - he doesn't look any older than when he was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Funny twist at the end, glad we watched it, Bette Midler was funny as ever.
We enjoyed having a night in watching a fun film.
Average customer rating:
- old video in great shape
- prompt service, pristine product
- You must obey!
- Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!
- A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination
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The Stepford Wives
Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
Director: Bryan Forbes
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
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- The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
- The Stepford Wives
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
- Westworld
ASIN: B00026L8US
Release Date: 2004-06-15 |
Amazon.com
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
Average customer rating:
- old video in great shape
- prompt service, pristine product
- You must obey!
- Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!
- A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination
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The Stepford Wives (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
Director: Bryan Forbes
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
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Similar Items:
- The Stepford Wives (Special Collector's Edition)
- The Stepford Wives
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
- Westworld
ASIN: B00005ASOL
Release Date: 2001-07-24 |
Amazon.com
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
Average customer rating:
- Watch both sides of the story
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Fahrenheit 9/11 & Fahrenhype 9/11 (2 DVD Set)
ProductGroup: DVD
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- An Inconvenient Truth
- Bowling for Columbine
ASIN: B000BV7ZY2 |
Customer Reviews:
Watch both sides of the story.......2007-02-14
Wow, just when you think you've got the real scoop, someone else comes along and dumps a truckload of info refuting that. Fahrenheit garnered all the awards and was played in most theaters throughout America. Fahrenhype raises some serious issues with Michael Moore's style of journalism. If you're going to see the first movie, you really owe to yourself to watch the other.
Average customer rating:
- Nicole Kidman... a robot???
- Weird......
- Nice Twist at the End
- Was this really necessary?
- I think it's great movie
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The Stepford Wives (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Nicole Kidman , Matthew Broderick , Bette Midler , Glenn Close , and Christopher Walken
Director: Frank Oz
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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| Comedy
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Similar Items:
- The Stepford Wives
- The Manchurian Candidate (Widescreen Edition)
- The Forgotten
- Bewitched (Special Edition)
- The Terminal (Full Screen Edition)
ASIN: B0002W4UEI
Release Date: 2004-11-09 |
Amazon.com
An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer
Description
In THE STEPFORD WIVES, Walter (Broderick) and Joanna (Kidman) Eberhart are the newest residents in a suburban neighborhood in Stepford. Seeing that the women she surrounds herself with all seem to be cut from the same mold, and are seemingly incapable of thinking for themselves, Joanna begins to think something suspicious is going on in Stepford. Upon realizing that her friends have been replaced by robots and that she's next on the list, Joanna and Walter decide to turn the tables and expose the truth about what's really been going on in Stepford.
Customer Reviews:
Nicole Kidman... a robot???.......2007-07-03
Ira Levin's famous suburban Gothic THE STEPFORD WIVES already has so much black comic potential built into its premise that making this remake of the much loved 1975 film into an all-out comedy was a mistake from the get-go. So was assembling the creative team and the cast: director Frank Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick are hardly known for their light and subtle touches, nor are Bette Midler and Jon Lovitz (in important supporting roles). And Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, and Nicole Kidman really aren't even comic actors. Kidman seems an especially prankishly bad choice to play a herpoine whose humanity is in peril. With her incredibly thin body and flawless wrinkle-free skin, she hardly seems appropriate to be passionately extolling the necessity of human imperfection. For some insane reason Oz and Rudnick decided to make Stepford not just upwardly mobile but berserkly and opulently wealthy, so all the satiric points Levin was making about middle-class suburbia seem obviated.
Weird.............2007-05-15
Not exactly sure what the movie's point is, except that robotic women are a nightmare. Very different, and I must say that any director that wanted to do a movie like this, doesn't have enough in his life to do.
Nice Twist at the End.......2007-04-26
This movie had it all. suspense, very good humor, some action but the story line was pretty good. I don't see how some writers didn't get this movie. Exceptional actors I mean like the best stars. And the location was very good. I think the people are really like that in Connecticut lol. Just kidding. But this is a good movie to see and own. I think most will enjoy it. They could have done a better job with the lab scene. But all in all a good movie.
Was this really necessary?.......2007-04-18
The original was a very effective, cautionary horror tale. The remake can't seem to make up its mind what it wants to be -- it definitely isn't scary -- and it doesn't include what I thought to be one of the more important bits from the original, the exchange between Katherine Ross' character and the psychiatrist before she gets taken back home and roboticized. I will say the revised ending does add some important food for thought.
I think it's great movie.......2007-01-28
Am i alone in thinking it's cool movie? Maybe not whole 5 stars, but still very nice, hilarious and relaxing. Very nice actors: Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler makes this movie very funny.
But really they could have done a much deeper version of this film and it would have been fantastic. Matthew Broderick wasn't a convincing husband for Nicole Kidman - he doesn't look any older than when he was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Funny twist at the end, glad we watched it, Bette Midler was funny as ever.
We enjoyed having a night in watching a fun film.
Average customer rating:
- old video in great shape
- prompt service, pristine product
- You must obey!
- Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!
- A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination
|
The Stepford Wives
Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
Director: Bryan Forbes
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Coe, George
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Higgins, Michael
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Louise, Tina
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Newman, Nanette
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ASIN: 6304697988
Release Date: 1997-12-03 |
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Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
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The Stepford Wives [Region 2]
Starring: Nicole Kidman , Matthew Broderick , Bette Midler , Glenn Close , and Christopher Walken
Director: Frank Oz
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ASIN: B0006GCZZ6 |
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An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satirical zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick, Addams Family Values), but the basic idea has lost a lot of gas since 1975. Also featuring Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction). --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Nicole Kidman... a robot???.......2007-07-03
Ira Levin's famous suburban Gothic THE STEPFORD WIVES already has so much black comic potential built into its premise that making this remake of the much loved 1975 film into an all-out comedy was a mistake from the get-go. So was assembling the creative team and the cast: director Frank Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick are hardly known for their light and subtle touches, nor are Bette Midler and Jon Lovitz (in important supporting roles). And Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, and Nicole Kidman really aren't even comic actors. Kidman seems an especially prankishly bad choice to play a herpoine whose humanity is in peril. With her incredibly thin body and flawless wrinkle-free skin, she hardly seems appropriate to be passionately extolling the necessity of human imperfection. For some insane reason Oz and Rudnick decided to make Stepford not just upwardly mobile but berserkly and opulently wealthy, so all the satiric points Levin was making about middle-class suburbia seem obviated.
Weird.............2007-05-15
Not exactly sure what the movie's point is, except that robotic women are a nightmare. Very different, and I must say that any director that wanted to do a movie like this, doesn't have enough in his life to do.
Nice Twist at the End.......2007-04-26
This movie had it all. suspense, very good humor, some action but the story line was pretty good. I don't see how some writers didn't get this movie. Exceptional actors I mean like the best stars. And the location was very good. I think the people are really like that in Connecticut lol. Just kidding. But this is a good movie to see and own. I think most will enjoy it. They could have done a better job with the lab scene. But all in all a good movie.
Was this really necessary?.......2007-04-18
The original was a very effective, cautionary horror tale. The remake can't seem to make up its mind what it wants to be -- it definitely isn't scary -- and it doesn't include what I thought to be one of the more important bits from the original, the exchange between Katherine Ross' character and the psychiatrist before she gets taken back home and roboticized. I will say the revised ending does add some important food for thought.
I think it's great movie.......2007-01-28
Am i alone in thinking it's cool movie? Maybe not whole 5 stars, but still very nice, hilarious and relaxing. Very nice actors: Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler makes this movie very funny.
But really they could have done a much deeper version of this film and it would have been fantastic. Matthew Broderick wasn't a convincing husband for Nicole Kidman - he doesn't look any older than when he was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Funny twist at the end, glad we watched it, Bette Midler was funny as ever.
We enjoyed having a night in watching a fun film.
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The Stepford Wives [Region 2]
Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
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- Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
- Westworld
ASIN: B00004WIAI |
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Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
Average customer rating:
- old video in great shape
- prompt service, pristine product
- You must obey!
- Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!
- A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination
|
The Stepford Wives
Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
Director: Bryan Forbes
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- The Stepford Wives
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
- Westworld
ASIN: B00005NDUU |
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Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
![The Stepford Wives [Region 2]](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/213GSDXFN0L.jpg)
Average customer rating:
- old video in great shape
- prompt service, pristine product
- You must obey!
- Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!
- A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination
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Starring: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman , and Tina Louise
Director: Bryan Forbes
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- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
- Westworld
ASIN: B0002B96Q6 |
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Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
old video in great shape.......2007-04-04
This video arrived in perfect shape and condition, a great old movie. So much better than the re-make...thanks!!
prompt service, pristine product.......2007-04-03
Thank you for the prompt delivery - the DVD is new - just great!
You must obey!.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this movie, very good acting. I liked the "slow" place of the beginning of the movie because it really gives a feel that things are bucolic (unlike most movies today where everything has to keep moving all the time.) While I was watching the movie, there were several places where I would say "Well, why are you doing that?" But right after the movie, I read one of the movie reviews on the back of the box that said "it is wonderfully ridiculous black humor satire." Then I realized that when you view this movie not so much as a story where ALL men are evil and ALL women are good but as social commentary but especially as symbolic, (especially I.F. Homemaker) everything makes perfect sense and the movie was just wonderful.
One needs to look at this movie as a commentary on how we each lose our individuality by a group of controlling men at the top of our power structure in which there is an incredibly strong pressure to conform, hence the fake smiling people who go around saying and believing that everything would be just wonderful in our consumer society if (in this case) women would just conform as noted in the final scene.
Oh no! The big bad MALE is going to get me!!!!.......2007-01-28
As a feminist, I hate movies that portray women as victims who struggle futile against the big bad evil MAN.
There are no good men in this movie. There are no evil women.
Such portrayals of women are demeaning. We are human beings, just like men. We are capable of evil. Men are capable of good.
Yes, some men would turn their wives into robots if they could, but so would some women! And I find it ridiculous that not one man stood up for his beloved partner. I find it ridiculous that not one woman was capable of true evil. Are we puppets?
It also bothers me that if these women are so strong and powerful, that they are helpless against the big bad men. The message seems to be that we can't save ourselves. We are just doomed to be what men want us to be.
I hate this attitude. Men are not all powerful. Women are human beings, not saints.
Two stars, though, for capturing the fears of women everywhere.
A woman's desperate attempt to free herself from male domination.......2006-12-18
At the urging of her husband Walter (Peter Masterson), aspiring photographer and obviously less-than-full-figured Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) becomes an unwilling resident of Stepford -- a town of apparent marital bliss. Uxorial devotion strikes the former woman's libber with suspicion. Befriending a wild and unconventional new resident named Bobbie Markowe (Paula Printiss), they attempt to uncover what appears to be a misogynic plot to subjugate beautiful wives. After a weekend nuptial renewing retreat, Bobbie returns as another ultra-domesticated Stepford housewife. This sends Joanna on a high-adrenaline quest for immediate answers that ultimately brings her face to face with a revelation of epic proportions.
Scenes include brief violence, emphasis on female anatomy, and discussions of marital coitus.
Movie quote: "If I'm wrong I'm insane. And if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong."
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