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 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 cake,
paint the house, mow the lawn, play with the kids and still
greet their husbands in lacy lingerie at the end of a busy
day.
Disturbed by the stunning but subservient women she meets in Stepford, Joanna
grows increasingly uneasy. On the other hand, Walter couldn’t be happier.
He’s especially impressed by the Stepford Men’s Association, a
fortress-like mansion in the center of town.
“This town, and the houses, and this
place – it’s like a dream,” enthuses Walter. “Like
the way life should be.”
Until Joanna Eberhart gets in the way.
Distributor: UIP
Running Time: 93mins
Release Date: 30th July
Certificate: 12A
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