The Stepford Wives (2004)

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 ground. Looking to take some time off to start over, Joanna and her husband, Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick), pull up stakes and move to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford. Walter takes to his new environment with real enthusiasm and joins the local men's organization, headed by one Mike Wellington. Joanna, on the oth...
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er hand, finds that Stepford is just a bit too quiet and well-groomed for her taste, and is taken aback by the aggressively cheerful and servile attitude of Mike's wife, Claire (Glenn Close), and the other women of the community. A notable exception is Bobbi Markowitz (Bette Midler), a happily misanthropic writer who revels in her lack of enthusiasm for housework or exercise. Joanna and Bobbi become fast friends, but as they look closer at the all-too-perfect surfaces of Stepford and its female inhabitants, they slowly discover a terrible secret lurking beneath. Also featuring Faith Hill, Jon Lovitz, and Roger Bart, The Stepford Wives was previously adapted for the screen in 1975, with Katherine Ross in the lead; that version spawned three made-for-TV sequels.
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Stepford has a secret: all of the wives are way too perfect, and all of the husbands are way too happy. "The Stepford Wives," a comic re-imagining of the 1975 suspense classic, follows the tale that unfolds when a young couple moves from Manhattan to the upper-class suburb of Connecticut. Once there, they soon discover that the Stepford men are replacing their wives with compliant robots.

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Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is een succesvolle baas van een televisie station. Wanneer zij wordt ontslagen, stort Joanna in. Haar man Walter (Matthew Broderick) staat erop te verhuizen van Manhattan naar het chique en moderne Stepford in Connecticut. Daar aangekomen, wordt Joanna goede vrienden met Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler), een joodse schrijfster en herstellend alcoholiste. Ze komen er tot hun ergernis achter dat alle huisvrouwen in Stepford eng zijn in hun perfectie. Joanna en Bobbie vragen zich af wat er gebeurt achter de gesloten deuren van de Stepford Men's Association. Waarom is alles zo perfect i...
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n Stepford? En zal het al te laat zijn wanneer ze achter de schokkende waarheid komen?
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