The Stepford Wives Reviews

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