Synopsis
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Cast
- Katharine RossJoanna Eberhart
- Paula PrentissBobbie Markowe
- Nanette NewmanCarol Van Sant
- Judith BaldwinPatricia Cornell
- Peter MastersonWalter Eberhart
- Tina LouiseCharmaine Wimpiris
- Carol Eve RossenDr. Fancher
- William PrinceIke Mazzard
- Mary Stuart MastersonKim Eberhart
- Patrick O'NealDale Coba
Recommendations
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Variety
Bryan Forbes’ filmization of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives is a quietly freaky suspense-horror story. - 75
Slant Magazine
Forbes’s direction is uncluttered and makes excellent use of the long shot, and though the film threatens to run out of steam at each and every turn, it never runs out of ideas. - 70
The A.V. Club
With its references to consciousness-raising groups and other archaic matters, it's very much of its time, but the film is effective for its vision of homogenized suburbia as a place in which housewifery has made women as interchangeable as the mass-produced products in their supermarket. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
It's never really believable, but it tries to be, and it would have had a better chance as straight satirical comment. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Ira Levin is an eclectic writer who has done comedy-drama (Sleuth), adventure (The Boys from Brazil), thrillers (Rosemary's Baby), and science fiction such as The Stepford Wives. But Goldman's screenplay and Forbes's ponderous direction slow his exciting novel to a laborious pace. - 50
Chicago Reader
The cast—with the happy exception of the always delightful Paula Prentiss—is uniformly dreary; and by the time the mystery begins to take shape, it's hardly possible to care. - 50
The New Yorker
It's so tastefully tame that there's no supsense. - 50
Time Out
William Goldman's leisurely script and Forbes' dull direction never quite capture the subtleties of Ira Levin's novel about an idyllic Connecticut commuter village where the housewives are a bunch of domesticated dummies.
