The Stepford Wives
1975
Based on Ira Levin's book about a small town where women act very strangely and all the men meet secretly. Read more
| Starring | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson |
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| Director | Bryan Forbes |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Stepford Wives
Based on Ira Levin's book about a small town where women act very strangely and all the men meet secretly.
| Starring | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson |
|---|---|
| Director | Bryan Forbes |
| Studio | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Sep 2000 Production year: 1975 |
| Format | DVD |
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An attractive idea which needs a much lighter and pacier touch but entertains in patches and shows agreeable sophistication.
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12 out of 14 people found this review helpful
The original and final version....
If you are planning on seeing the Kidman / Broderick 'remake' of this film, get this in as soon as possible to see how good movie-making should be done.
The story is simple enough - family move to a quiet town away from The City to start a new life. The hubbie joins a Men's Association and wifie is bored, until she hooks up with another newcomer with some zest in her dungarees.
They soon notice that all the wives in the town are dull, dull, dull. They dress dull, they talk dull, but they shag their fellas as if Casanova was visiting with a bag full of viagra.
The main wife (Ross) starts getting ideas that all is not well, and her friends become dull over the course of a long weekend. She starts to investigate, and happens upon a nasty conspiracy. No plot giveaways, as the film will tell you much better than I about goes on, but suffice to say this is an excellent slow-thriller, and should never have been botched into another Hollywood 'reimagining'.
It's weird, it's clever, it's funny, and it should be in your dvd player as soon as. -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Clever film of its day that still resonates
The Stepford Wives has come back into everyday parlance with the recent remake starring Nicole Kidman - but for a much more real view of how 70s women were affected by society, the 1970s original of The Stepford Wives is much better value.
Starring Katharine Ross and Nanette Newman and directed by Newman's husband Bryan Forbes, TSW shows a brilliantly eerie and sinister view of what could happen if women became too homely.
Katharine Ross, an aspiring photographer (a very 70s theme) moves from the city with her husband (a lawyer) to Stepford, only to discover that the majority of women are a little too perfect.
Although the fashion and day-to-day living may seem out-of-date, the themes of feminism (very of its time, given the recent publication of The Female Eunuch) and women staying at home are very pertinent still to this day.
Definitely worth a watch and far superior to its remake (now, there's a surprise!), with a proper ending! -
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