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Joanna misses the noise. She misses the hum of life. Even if you haven’t seen The Stepford Wives, you’re probably well aware of it. In the 47 years since the film hit theaters around ...
I was also leaning towards ambiguity as to what the actual fate of the Stepford Wives was. Not the kind of ambiguity seen in The Turn of the Screw since something is clearly going on, but as to ...
The Stepford Wives begins with Joanna Eberhart, a wife, mother and photographer, who moves with her family from Manhattan to the suburban town of Stepford. She is interested in tennis, photography ...
Wilde has dubbed her 50s-set film a “Feminine Mystique on acid,” though as Vogue magazine noted, “If ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ owes a debt to any movie, it’s ‘The Stepford Wives’.” ...
But despite what anyone has said about the obvious commentary on the patriarchy and feminism that the film contains, the brilliance of The Stepford Wives is not actually in its hyperbole ...
The film ends with the “new” Joanna drifting vacantly through the supermarket, now dressed and coiffed like all the other Stepford wives. Ira Levin, who died in 2007, said that he based the ...
Nicole Kidman is what you get when a character has to hold tension without saying a word. She does the heavy lifting in scenes that look effortless. For over four decades, she has pursued roles that ...
Over 50 years since its release, The Stepford Wives remains a sci-fi touchstone thanks to its unnerving portrayal of a small town where women suddenly change from independent free thinkers to ...
Before "tradwife" had a hashtag and dedicated aesthetic, Stepford Wives was the blueprint of homemaker style. The 2004 comedy-thriller starred Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart, a high-powered ...
Her latest book, “One of Our Kind,” available from Knopf on Tuesday, June 11, is an adult thriller inspired by “The Stepford Wives,” about a Black family from Los Angeles in search of a ...