Synopsis
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanJoanna Eberhart
- Matthew BroderickWalter Kresby
- Bette MidlerBobbie Markowitz
- Glenn CloseClaire Wellington
- Christopher WalkenMike Wellington
- Roger BartRoger Bannister
- David Marshall GrantJerry Harmon
- Jon LovitzDave Markowitz
- Dylan HartiganPete Kresby
- Fallon BrookingKimberly Kresby
Recommendations
- 80
L.A. Weekly
Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Because the entire audience knows what's going on, the filmmakers hope to distract viewers from storytelling weaknesses with an urgent sense of style. - 60
Variety
Another "remake" that merits the title in name only, The Stepford Wives isn't the "troubled" disaster that media reports have suggested it might be, yet nor do its oddly matched parts ever congeal into a fully formed creation. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
At no time do the men -- that is, the straight ones -- believably hold the upper hand. In the new town of Stepford, there's no bitterness, no struggle, no competition, none of the scars of the sexual revolution. There's just gay apparel. - 50
Rolling Stone
Close gets laughs, as does Bette Midler as a Jewish rebel. But the sting is gone. - 50
Miami Herald
Isn't so much bad as it is puny: a sporadically amusing, occasionally funny, but ultimately bland and pointless time killer. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Only Close, in a majestically, maniacally brittle demonstration of Stepford overdrive, has the courage to show how nutty the pursuit of domestic perfection is. In this mess of a film, she is perfection. - 40
Los Angeles Times
It was somebody's nitwit idea to rip out the story's guts and brains for a sour sellout of a finale -- which finds the filmmakers behaving exactly like Stepford men and turning an original into a dummy.
