Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Katharine Ross | ... | Joanna Eberhart | |
Paula Prentiss | ... | Bobbie Markowe | |
Peter Masterson | ... | Walter Eberhart | |
Nanette Newman | ... | Carol Van Sant | |
Tina Louise | ... | Charmaine Wimpiris | |
Carol Eve Rossen | ... | Dr. Fancher (as Carol Rossen) | |
William Prince | ... | Ike Mazzard | |
Carole Mallory | ... | Kit Sunderson | |
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Toni Reid | ... | Marie Axhelm |
Judith Baldwin | ... | Patricia Cornell | |
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Barbara Rucker | ... | Mary Ann Stravros |
George Coe | ... | Claude Axhelm | |
Franklin Cover | ... | Ed Wimpiris | |
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Robert Fields | ... | Raymond Chandler |
Michael Higgins | ... | Frank Cornell |
The Stepford Wives is about a small suburb where the women happily go about their housework - cleaning, doing laundry, and cooking gourmet meals - to please their husbands. Unfortunately, Bobbie and Joanna discover that the village's wives have been replaced with robots, and Joanna's husband wants in on the action. Written by Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu>
The image of beautiful, not necessarily sexy, women parading through the aisles of a grocery story in picturesque, almost Victorian summer dresses and wide white broad brimmed hats is one of the most lasting of this effective thriller based on the work by Ira Levin. Katherine Ross engagingly plays a women being moved with family in tow from the hustle and bustle of New York City to the serene suburbs of old Connetticut. Ross soon discovers that life for the gentle sex is anything but normal. All the women of Stepford seem to be concerned with is housecleaning and pleasing their husbands. This is a good, high energy film that shocks more from looks and what you do not see rather than what you do see. Helping greatly is a solid acting cast working with a pliable script. Though shot with an almost static effect at times, The Stepford Wives packs a few good punches. The scene in the grocery store and the scene with the empty eyes are just two of the highlights for me. Patrick O' Neal, lovely Tina Louise, and the ever loquacious Paula Prentiss costar. At the heart of the film is human identity and the worth it has/should have. There are aspects of social commentary abounding: the relationship of men and women in marriage, the effects of Suburban living, and the dangers of technology.