Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives, which is made in 2004, is a usual type of comedy. It was directed by Frank Oz with a screenplay by Paul Rudnick, and starring Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, Faith Hill, Glenn Close and Jon Lovitz. The film makes a criticism to irony of American lifestyle.
Nicole Kidman is starring as a top New York TV executive Joanna Eberhart. She has strong personality and really dominant to her milquetoast husband, Matthew Broderick acting as Walter Kresby. Because of ruining of her job she went into depression and her husband suggested her to move a new city to have a new life. After that they decided to move from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut. It's weird there. The women all are really good looking and beautiful. Glenn Close is Claire Wellington, the property negotiator, greeter and society cheerleader, and she makes Joanna feel nervous. No one in Stepford appears to work; people are really moneyed, they don't need to, and the men spend time at the Men's Association as the women go to Claire's work out sessions. She meets with Bobbie Markowitz (Bette Midler), novelist of a best-selling chronicle about her mother; I Love You, But Please Die. Joanna and Bobbie are different then all of other women in Stepford. After a while, Joanna realizes a big difference in Bobbie like other women and she decided to move from Stepford, however, her husband doesn’t want it. She goes Men’s Association to find her husband and children. When she goes there men waits for her. They tell her the truth, their good looking and perfect wives behaving like it because their husbands remote them via sending signals to their brain and they tell Joanna they will make her too, like others, a perfect robot woman. Mike, husband of Claire (Christopher Walken), tell her these all his plan. They say Walter to make her wife a robot too but Walter doesn’t do it. After that Joanna pretends like she is a robot to...