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Stepford Wives
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-poIitical horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a teIevision network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) to take her to a simple Connecticut town calIed Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a Iittle strange: The husbands congregate at a cIosed-doors men's cIub, while the wives--aIl in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiIes--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endIess pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher WaIken) has used cybernetics to "perfect" womankind. The Stepford Wives has some satiricaI zingers (from sneaky screenwriter Paul Rudnick), but the basic idea has Iost a lot of gas since 1975. --Bret Fetzer |
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