High-powered TV exec Joanna Eberhard (Kidman) loses her job and has a nervous breakdown. Mousey hubby Walter Kresby (Broderick) whisks her and the children off to the quiet and secure Connecticut suburban town of Stepford, where the fashions and behavior seem to date from 1956. All the women are perky, long-haired blondes who do nothing but cook and serve their dorky husbands hand and foot. Regal Claire Wellington (Close) and her mildly creepy husband Mike (Walken) preside over this idyllic(?) community. The only other persons not taken in, at least initially, are Bobbie Markowitz (Midler), a loud Jewish writer, and Roger Banister, the more femme half of a gay couple. This 2004 remake of the fairly straight 1970s movie based on Ira Levin's horror novel about robotic suburban housewives approaches the story from a more satirical angle, and falls rather flat on all counts.
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The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
