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The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

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psychiatrist, to whom she voices her belief that the men in the town are in a conspiracy that involves altering the psyches of the women. The psychiatrist recommends that she leave town until she feels safe. After leaving the psychiatrist's office, Joanna returns home to pick up her children only to find that they are missing and Walter is evasive about their whereabouts. The two get in a physical scuffle when she refuses her husband's demands to lie down in her bed. Joanna locks herself in the bedroom, then sneaks out to Bobbie's house after Walter leaves her alone, but grows frustrated when Bobbie refuses to engage with her in a meaningful way. Desperate and disturbed, Joanna cuts her hand before stabbing Bobbie with a kitchen knife. Bobbie does not bleed, but instead malfunctions, revealing that the real Bobbie has been replaced by a
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that houses the Men's Association, in hopes of finding her children. However, she is confronted by Dale, the operation's mastermind, who says that her children are really with Charmaine. He remotely locks the front door and asks her if she desires a flawless husband, explaining that the men of Stepford replace their wives "because they can", and that it is "perfect" for both the husband and the wife. He takes the poker away from her, at which point she screams and flees, eventually coming upon her own active but unfinished robot replica. Joanna is shocked into near-paralysis when she sees its black, empty eyes. The Joanna-replica smiles as it brandishes a nylon stocking and calmly approaches Joanna to strangle her as Dale looks on, confirming that the real wives have all been murdered.
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Joanna is also unimpressed by the boorish Men's Association members, including the intimidating president Dale "Diz" Coba. Stealthily, the Men's Association collects information on Joanna including her picture, her voice, and other personal details. When Charmaine returns from a weekend trip with her husband as a devoted wife who has fired her maid and destroyed her tennis court, Joanna and Bobbie start investigating, with ever-increasing concern, the reason behind the submissive and bland behavior of the other wives. Their fear reaches its pinnacle when they discover that all the women were once strong, assertive, independent, and staunch advocates of
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contemporary prairie-style dress, complete with frilly aprons, for all the wives. Goldman was also unhappy with re-writes by Forbes - in particular, the ending - which Nanette Newman claimed Forbes had deliberately filmed "in an unreal way, so they were almost like a ballet moving in and out, up and down the aisle." Additional stresses were caused when actor
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Some time later, the false Joanna placidly peruses the local supermarket among the other glamorously dressed wives. As they make their way through the store, they each vacantly greet one another. Nearby, a black couple argues with each other about their recent move to Stepford. It is implied that the
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Joanna subsequently befriends Bobbie Markowe, with whom she finds common interests and shared ideas. Along with trophy wife Charmaine Wimperis, the three organize a women's liberation meeting, but the gathering is a failure when the other wives continually divert the discussion to cleaning products.
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Joanna later returns home and bludgeons Walter with a fire poker, demanding to know where their children were taken. He tells Joanna that the kids are at the Men's Association, after which Walter loses consciousness. Despite sensing that she will be the latest victim, Joanna sneaks into the mansion
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s inherent satire is ill-served by Bryan Forbes' stately direction, but William Goldman's script excels as a damning critique of a misogynistic society." Some critics deride its leisurely pace. Most applaud the "quiet, domestic" thrills the film delivers in the final third and earlier sections as
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Tension developed between Forbes and screenwriter Goldman over the casting of Nanette Newman (Forbes's wife) as one of the wives. Goldman felt that the 40-year-old Newman's appearance did not match the young provocatively-dressed model-like women he'd scripted for. Forbes responded by instituting
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Bobbie and Joanna start house hunting in other towns. Later, Joanna wins a prestigious contract with a photo gallery. When she goes to tell Bobbie, Joanna is shocked to find that the former has abruptly become another clean conformist housewife with no intention of moving. She panics and visits a
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Joanna Eberhart, a young wife and aspiring photographer, moves with her husband Walter and their two daughters from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut. She finds that the women in town all look flawless and are obsessed with housework, but lack intellectual interests. The men all belong to the
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groups was not favorable, with one studio screening for feminist activists being met with "hisses, groans, and guffaws." Cast and crew disagreed with the perceived anti-woman interpretations, with Newman recalling "Bryan always used to say, 'If anything, it's anti-men!'" Despite
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being a major influence on the original novel upon which the film was based, Friedan's response to the film was highly critical, calling it "a rip-off of the women's movement." Friedan commented that women should boycott the film and attempt to diminish any publicity for it.
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wrote that the actresses "have absorbed enough TV, or have such an instinctive feeling for those phony, perfect women in the ads, that they manage all by themselves to bring a certain comic edge to their cooking, their cleaning, their gossiping and their living deaths."
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exclusionary Men's Association, which Walter joins to Joanna's dismay. Joanna is also bewildered by her neighbor Carol Van Sant's sexual submissiveness to her husband Ted, and her odd, repetitive behavior after a car accident.
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came to the film's defense, stating that it "presses buttons that make you furious—the fact that all the Stepford men wanted were big breasts, big bottoms, a clean house, fresh-perked coffee and sex."
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secretly called his friend Goldman for input on scenes. Goldman later claimed the film "could have been very strong, but it was rewritten and altered, and I don't think happily."
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During the end credits, photographs show a smiling Walter driving the family car and picking up his new "Stepford wife" from the supermarket with their children in the back seat.
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wrote that the finale was "deeply divisive" and the actress for Joanna stated retrospectively that if she was to revise the ending she would have Joanna "fight harder".
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premiered theatrically in February 1975. It grossed $ 4 million at the U.S. box office, though it received mixed reviews from critics. Reaction from
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summarized the film as "a quietly freaky suspense-horror story" and praised Ross's performance as "excellent and assured." John Seymour of the
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awarded the film a middling two out of four stars, describing the screenplay as a "tedious" and "padded" adaptation of the source material.
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premiered theatrically in the United States on February 12, 1975. The film grossed approximately $ 4 million in North America.
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dismissed it as a "rip-off of the women's movement" and discouraged women from seeing it, though others such as
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was cast as Joanna's friend and ally Bobbie but was fired after a few weeks of production and replaced by
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re-released the "Silver Anniversary" edition, which featured the same bonus materials and screen menus.
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Silver, Anna Krugovoy (2002). "The Cyborg Mystique: The Stepford Wives and Second Wave Feminism".
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has become a popular science fiction concept. Several sequels to the film were made, as well as a
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also gave the film a favorable review, deeming it an "epic nightmare" boasting "gripping drama."
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was cast as another doomed wife. For the role of Carol Van Sant, Forbes cast his own wife,
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initially accepted but cancelled before filming began. The part eventually went to
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No exterior sets were built for the film, which was shot on location in several
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as "a film essay about what it means to be part of an unspoken 'underclass.'"
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DVD edition on December 3, 1997. In 2001, Anchor Bay reissued the film in a "
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Wolf, William (August 11, 1974). "Creating Horror in Connecticut Sunlight".
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one of the best horror films of the 1970s. In a writer's roundtable with
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listed the film as one of the inspirations behind his directorial debut
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release, and remains under the ownership of pharmaceutical conglomerate
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was initially going to direct but William Goldman didn’t want him to.
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Scheduling difficulties delayed the filming from 1973 until 1974.
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wife will be the next target of the Men's Association conspiracy.
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For the lead role of Joanna Eberhart, Forbes initially met with
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on VHS on March 10, 1997; they subsequently released a non-
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as well as bonus interviews with cast and crew. In 2004,
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The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays
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activists was also divided at the time of its release;
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on the song, "Hey Music Lover", by British dance act,
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The film influenced the development of the character
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deemed the film a "rip-off" of the women's movement
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Index


Bryan Forbes
William Goldman
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Edgar J. Scherick
Katharine Ross
Paula Prentiss
Peter Masterson
Nanette Newman
Tina Louise
Patrick O'Neal
Owen Roizman
Michael Small
Palomar Pictures
Columbia Pictures
satirical
psychological thriller
Bryan Forbes
William Goldman
Ira Levin
1972 novel of the same name
Katharine Ross
Peter Masterson
feminist
Betty Friedan
Gael Greene
Eleanor Perry
cult film
big-budget remake

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