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A subversive and comic look
at rampant consumerism and the quest for perfection, “The Stepford Wives” exposes
what it really means to be human by looking beneath the perfect
veneer of an idyllic community nestled in our very imperfect
world. Featuring an extraordinary cast, “The Stepford
Wives” stars Nicole Kidman in
a comedic thriller about a community that dares to be perfect
and learns that to err is human.
Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman)
thinks she’s made
it to the top of her world.
The youngest president in the history
of the EBS television network, she also has an attentive
husband and two beautiful
children. On the surface, Joanna’s life appears to
be, well, perfect… until one catastrophic day when
it all comes crashing down around her. Fired from her job,
her perfect marriage in trouble, unable to remember where
her kids go to school, Joanna is starting to, Matthew Broderick,
Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill and Glenn Close
look like a
candidate for electroshock therapy.
Yes, there’s nothing like a
nervous breakdown to make Joanna and her husband Walter
(Matthew Broderick) reexamine
their priorities, pack up the family and make a fresh start
in the idyllic suburban paradise of Stepford, Connecticut.
But something strange is happening
in the quaint little town of Stepford, and Joanna is suspicious.
So is Bobbie
Markowitz (Bette Midler), who recently moved to town with
her irascible frat-boyish husband Dave (Jon Lovitz). And
Roger Bannister (Roger Bart), an architect who came to Stepford
hoping to save his rocky relationship with his conservative
partner Jerry (David Marshall Grant), is wondering what’s
going on, too.
It’s the wives. They’re all like Claire Wellington
(Glenn Close) – beautiful, happy and unusually creative
with crafts. They can bake a
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