The Stepford Wives (2004) on Netflix
PG-1320041h 33mComedySci-FiThriller
Joanna Eberhart loses her job running a reality TV network. She and her husband Walter Kresby move their children to Stepford, Connecticut, where the wives garden and exercise in dresses.
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- IMDb5.4/1073,090 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes26%
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Plot summary
Joanna Eberhart is the president of a reality television network. A participant named Hank attacks her during an upfront presentation, and her boss Helen Devlin fires her. Joanna breaks down. Her husband Walter Kresby, who works at the same network, moves the family out of Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut, with their children Pete and Kimberly. There Joanna meets Bobbie Markowitz, a feminist writer in recovery from alcoholism, and Roger Bannister, an architect who arrived with his partner Jerry, a lawyer. In Stepford the wives garden, knit and exercise in dresses.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Stepford Wives (2004)
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- John Cusack and his sister Joan Cusack were originally cast as Walter and Bobbie, but both dropped out only weeks before filming began so they could be with their dying father.
- Director Frank Oz openly admitted to tension on set with his cast, singling out Bette Midler in a 2003 interview for bringing her personal stress onto the production.
- The film began as a dark satire with an ending close to the 1975 original, but poor test-screening results made Paramount order extensive reshoots that changed the film's tone and gave it an entirely new ending.
