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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 12 February, 1975 DVD Release : 15 June, 2004 |
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The Stepford Wives description Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semiclassic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | wonderful in some ways--needed editing |
| this has been a story that i've known since i was a kid. it was filmed in my hometown / county. i have watched it as an adult, and much about it is quite wonderful. there is a good suspense, and Bobbi's transformation is quite horrible. Paula Prentiss is her wonderful self, and Miss Ross is fine. there are wonderful campy scenes that any lover of camp must see. as another reviewer said, some of these scenes are truly unforgettable. i wish the two fact finding expeditions they took had been melded into one--would have helped with pacing.
It's ironic, in that Joanna's downfall is what in a biological way would make her the most excellent of mates--she wants to protect her children. but to a narcissist husband, that doesn't matter at all. if you think about it--how devastating would it be to see your replacement.... along those lines, comparison's to bodysnatchers are specious--no one had a choice in that story. here, narcisisstic husbands are the driving force. Misogynistic? Only if you feel that some would feel the men were right in their anxiety about women claiming their power. I feel it is truly a feminist movie--in that feminism is a critique of traditional gender / power relationships and the lengths to which those in power will go to preserve their dominance. but for the pacing, i feel that there are themes worthy of study in this film (but as a friend of mine said, that's because i look at everything archetypally). I recommend it--but don't expect to be thrilled. expect to have questions about personhood and power structures raised. discuss. |
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