The Stepford Wives (2004) 7/10

Starring : Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Roger Bart, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken
Director : Frank Oz
Running Time : 93 mins

Following an attempt on her life, feminist television executive Joanna Eberhart (Kidman) and her husband Walter (Broderick) move to the sleepy Connecticut town of Stepford, where all of the women are perfect examples of wives and mothers, bowing to their mens every whim and desire. Soon Joanna discovers that the behaviour of the women has less to do with their upbringing and more to do with sinister mayor of Stepford, Mike Wellington (Walken).

This is a clever version of the Stepford Wives story, but all of the mystery has pretty much been removed and replaced with hammy comedy moments. Granted the comedy does work on the whole, and the relationship between Kidman and Broderick is sweet by the end of the movie, but to make this truly brilliant it needed to be far darker.

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