The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives (2004)

  • 27% of critics liked it
    (166 reviews)

  • 36% of users liked it
    (193,205 ratings)

Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Paul Rudnick
Genres
Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 11, 2004 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    To paraphrase Paul Rudnick's Premiere magazine movie-critic alter ego, Libby Gelman-Waxner: It's flat, cold, fork-resistant and tasteless, if you ask me.

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    It has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    It has two speeds -- obvious and more so.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    Very good dialogue, the rest of this stuff just falls apart.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    Satirizing The Stepford Wives is pointless.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bethany M


    Weird film. Creepy how they controlled them like that and it was a great fictional story.

  • Jameson W


    The 1975 version is much better, but this version really surprised me. I had low expectations, but overall I enjoyed it. It's silly and cheesy in some parts, but it still has enough of the creepy elements to keep the audience interested. I prefer the dark mood of the old version… More

  • Conner R


    Aside from a decent cast, this is a train wreck of a film. It is completely unmemorable and has little meaning aside from cheap laughs. It attempts to be a comedy, a horrible decision on the film maker's part. It could've been a decent remake, but it just became a failure.… More

  • Candy R


    Good re-make of original. Original was a lot darker. Doesn't everyone want the perfect wife? A couple retreat to suburbia to restore their marriage and concentrate on family life. Very quickly they notice the newcomers being brainwashed into stereotypes - the perfect wife, the… More

  • Jennifer D


    LOL this was originally a horror film, no? This remake didn't exactly carry the same tune.

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