The Stepford wives

Year of release : 2004

 

Run time : 1h33min

 

Genre : Sci Fi / Comedy / Thriller

 

Cast : Nicole Kidman , Bette Midler , Matthew Broderick , Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill

 

 

The movie is the 2nd adaptation of the 1972 novel of the same name by Ira Levin, and a remake of the 1975 movie of the same name.

A couple moves to Stepford, Connecticut, after the wife has a nervous breakdown after she was fired from her job,as a man tried to kill her and killed his wife and all her s*x partners involved in a show she created.

 

Everything seems too perfect in Stepford, the wives are all beautiful,blonde and stupid,care about ridiculous things,are almost slaves to their nerdy, unattractive husbands.

 

Joanna,the lead, befriends two funny characters who soon after, turn into the same brainwashed creatures that walk at the arm of the Stepford men.

 

The acting was top notch,Nicole Kidman and Glenn Close are always a win. The movie was funny. The place heavenly,the women's attire classy and beautiful.

 

What I didn’t like—they couldn’t decide if they are robots or just brainwashed. The whole movie they kept on saying they were robots,we even have a scene with a woman placing a card in her mouth and getting out 20 dollars in one dollar bills - that’s a robot ! ;

Bobbie puts her hand on the fire and can’t feel it, there’s also a deleted scene with her in which her finger turns into a mixer.

 

The movie received negative reviews, and was a box office flop, grossing 103.3 million dollars against a budget of 100 million.

Cinema Score audiences graded the movie a C+.

John Cusack and Joan Cusack were both cast as Walter and Bobbie, but dropped, when their father got sick and dying.

Due to negative results of test screenings the ending of the movie was re-shot, as it was supposed to end as the original, with our lead replaced. This also explains why the movie made no sense anymore.

 

Rating : Could have been a contender !