THE STEPFORD WIVES (WIDESCREEN SPECIAL EDITION)(2003)

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Joanna vient de quitter New York pour s'installer à Stepford, petit village du Connecticut. La vie y est si paisible et les femmes si heureuses d'être des ménagères soumises et attentionnées qu'elle ne tarde pas à soupçonner les hommes de Stepford d'être à l'origine de cet étrange comportement. Avec son amie Bobby, elle décide de mener l'enquête et ne tarde pas à découvrir l'horreur absolue...; ; Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Looking to take some time off to start over, Joanna and her husband, Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick), pull up stakes and move to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford. Walter takes to his new environment with real enthusiasm and joins the local men's organization, headed by one Mike Wellington. Joanna, on the other hand, finds that Stepford is just a bit too quiet and well-groomed for her taste, and is taken aback by the aggressively cheerful and servile attitude of Mike's wife, Claire (Glenn Close), and the other women of the community. A notable exception is Bobbi Markowitz (Bette Midler), a happily misanthropic writer who revels in her lack of enthusiasm for housework or exercise. Joanna and Bobbi become fast friends, but as they look closer at the all-too-perfect surfaces of Stepford and its female inhabitants, they slowly discover a terrible secret lurking beneath. Also featuring Faith Hill, Jon Lovitz, and Roger Bart, The Stepford Wives was previously adapted for the screen in 1975, with Katherine Ross in the lead; that version spawned three made-for-TV sequels.
• Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Dylan Hartigan, Fallon Brooking, Faith Hill, Matt Malloy, Kate Shindle, Tom Riis Farrell, Lorri Bagley, Robert Stanton, Lisa Masters, Christopher Evan Welch, Colleen Dunn, Jason Kravits, Emily Wing, C.S. Lee, Tony Torn, Mary Beth Peil, Andrea Anders, Mike White, Carrie Preston, Billy Bush, Tyler McGuckin, Nick Reidy, Sebastian Rand, Tanoai Reed, Blaise Corrigan, G.A. Aguilar, Meredith Vieira, Rick Holmes, Kadee Strickland, Larry King, Munro M. Bonnell, Michelle Durning, Kenny Kosek, Will Woodard, Elizabeth Austin, Deanna Dys, Joanne DiMauro, Digene Farrar, Bernard Ferstenberg, James Peter Lynch, Shannon McGann, Cristin Mortenson, Elizabeth A. Patek, David Purves, Joseph Ricci, Mark Vaughn, Jennifer Alexander, Judi Beecher, Ariana Bernstein, Jennifer R. Blake, Myriam Blanckaert, Linda Rivera Bradt, Steve Brown, Julie Carpenter, Michael Christaldi, Jane DeNoble, Deanna Destito, Lori Finkel, Jeff Hackenberger, Douglas Haddad, Frank Hopf, Azel James, Wendy Johnson, Lyn Kagen, Laquayva, Rich Lounello, Victoria Matlock, Tim Miller, Tarajia Morrell, Nicole Neeman, Richard O'Rourke, Dawn Ressy, Peter J. Rowan, Colleen Sturtevant, Paul Thornton, Mira Tzur, Jerome Vivona, Dan Weltner, Dennis Wit, Erika Woods, Melissa Anne Young, Frank Oz, Ira Levin, Paul Rudnick
• Director: Frank Oz
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie