The Stepford Wives Review |
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 3/4) |
I think men today would love to have a wife who can completely nurture them. I
mean, what man loves to wash dishes, cook, do the laundry, and clean house? So
the notion that a woman can still be subservient to the man of the house is not
just...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 1.5/4) |
sequels, but for the summer of 2004 wise old Hollywood has decided to
turn this classic into a killer *comedy*. Why else would they have cast
Bette Midler, Jon Lovitz, and (to a lesser extent) Glenn Close and
Christopher Walken in supporting roles? Why...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 3/5) |
When Ira Levin's book was made into the original movie in 1975, it
was a chilling allegory on the value of nonconformity and real love.
Its camp value was unintentional and no doubt now a source of
embarrassment to the filmmakers. It was meant to be...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2.5/4) |
In another in her string of disappointing performances after her Oscar winning
work on THE HOURS, Nicole Kidman stars as Joanna Eberhart in THE STEPFORD
WIVES, the remake of the 1975 film, which starred Katharine Ross. Opening with
a shrill performance...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Ryan Ellis |
You gotta love (I mean, LOATHE) short-sighted Hollywood and its hunger to
update mediocre movies. If I could have a Stepford wife right now...wow,
that'd be something. I think I'd have to commit suicide faster than you can
say "lousy remake". The 1975...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10) |
PLOT:
A powerful businesswoman loses her job and moves to a small, quaint town named
Stepford in order to get away from all the hustle and bustle of the big city.
With husband and kids in tow, she soon notices a weird trend in her new
surroundings,...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Laura Clifford (Rating: C) |
Meek Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick, "Election") wants a new life for his
family after his wife, a once powerful network exec whose miscalculations
cost her her job, suffers a nervous breakdown. New York City is left
behind for the gated Connecticut...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Richard A. Zwelling (Rating: 0.5/4) |
Unfunny, uninvolving, and filled with enough phoned-in performances to
make you puke, this is one of the worst movies I have had the
displeasure of enduring over the past few years. more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Jonathan F. Richards |
Like a standup comic working a forlorn Catskills resort, The Stepford
Wives manages to make you laugh from time to time, but it never makes you not
wish you were somewhere else. more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Bob Bloom (Rating: 2.5/4) |
The Stepford Wives (2004) 2 1/2 stars out of 4. Starring Nicole Kidman,
Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, Faith Hill and more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Susan Granger (Rating: 5/10) |
Susan Granger's "The Stepford Wives" (Paramount Pictures)
From Ira Levin's suspenseful horror-story and the 1975 movie, the term
"Stepford wife" has come into the vernacular as the perfect woman, according to
the male chauvinists who created her....more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: C) |
Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten
Paramount Pictures
Grade: C
Directed by: Frank Oz
Written by: Paul Rudnick, book by Ira Levin
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick
Christopher Walken, Faith Hill, Glenn Close, Roger Bart, Jon
Lovitz
Screened...more |
The Stepford Wives Review |
by Robin Clifford (Rating: C) |
In 1975 a new slang term came to be to describe the
automaton mentality that began to pervade America as
the "me generation" got under way. Now, nearly 30
years later, director Frank Oz and scripter Paul
Rudnick update novelist Ira Levin's darkly...more |