Rotten
Overlong and underdeveloped, this flimsy Bryan Forbes horror story (1975) would probably have made a decent television movie; but on the big screen and stretched to nearly two hours, it sags badly.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
The Stepford Wives
Something is wrong with the women of Stepford.
1975 · 1h 57m · PG
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Bryan Forbes
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The Stepford Wives
Overview
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Director and cast
- Bryan Forbes Director
- Katharine Ross as Joanna Eberhart
- Paula Prentiss as Bobbie Markowe
- Nanette Newman as Carol Van Sant
- Judith Baldwin as Patricia Cornell
- Peter Masterson as Walter Eberhart
- Tina Louise as Charmaine Wimpiris
- Carol Eve Rossen as Dr. Fancher
- William Prince as Ike Mazzard
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Kim Eberhart
- Patrick O'Neal as Dale Coba
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Rotten
William Goldman's leisurely script and Forbes' dull direction never quite capture the subtleties of Ira Levin's novel about an idyllic Connecticut commuter village where the housewives are a bunch of domesticated dummies.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
The humor that remains in the movie is preesnted with such facetiousness one almost feels embarrassed to watch. You want to tell the actors to take it easy, since it's apparent that Bryan Forbes, the film's director, didn't.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
I can imagine similar material being directed by, say, Woody Allen, and coming out pointed and funny. Instead, director Bryan Forbes gets all solemn and spooky and goes for obvious effects like bolts of lightning and forbidding Gothic mansions.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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