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Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close, Bette Midler
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High-powered TV exec Joanna Eberhard (Kidman) loses her job and has a nervous breakdown. Mousey hubby Walter Kresby (Broderick) whisks her and the children off to the quiet and secure Connecticut suburban town of Stepford, where the fashions and behavior seem to date from 1956. All the women are perky, long-haired blondes who do nothing but cook and serve their dorky husbands hand and foot. Regal Claire Wellington (Close) and her mildly creepy husband Mike (Walken) preside over this idyllic(?) community. The only other persons not taken in, at least initially, are Bobbie Markowitz (Midler), a loud Jewish writer, and Roger Banister, the more femme half of a gay couple. This 2004 remake of the fairly straight 1970s movie based on Ira Levin's horror novel about robotic suburban housewives approaches the story from a more satirical angle, and falls rather flat on all counts.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Stepford Wives |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Repressive Society
Yes
Clones/duplicates?
- bad clones/duplicates
Clones/Duplicates?
Yes
Who's being repressed/enslaved?
- women are slaves
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- scientist
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average (female)
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average Intelligence
Physical condition
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
- Over controlled society
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Tone of movie
- funny
Comedy or somewhat funny movie?
Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
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