Who’s in it: Glenn Close (from left), Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Faith Hill, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken
What it’s about: A young couple (Kidman and Broderick) moves from Manhattan to an upper-class suburb of Connecticut and soon discover that the Stepford men are replacing their wives with compliant robots.
Worth watching? (star)(star) ” ‘The Stepford Wives’ has been Stepfordized into a big-budget, star-heavy commodity, complete with computer effects and not-so-subliminal product placements (Apple computers, etc.). It’s the very thing [original “The Stepford Wives” author Ira] Levin warned against all those years ago.
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