The Stepford Wives is a science fiction, dark-comedy. It is based on Ira Levin’s novel, “The Stepford Wives”. Joanna is a successful TV personality who hosts TV programmes but she gets fired after an angry contestant attempts to shoots her. After the incident she moves to suburbs in Stepford with her husband Walter and her two children. That is where the strangeness starts to happen…

There is something wrong with the women of Stepford. They are all housewives and they act like they live solely to serve their husbands. The film manages to portray this well. All the women act emotionless and they all wear colourful feminine clothes. Joanna along with Bobbie (a writer) and Roger (a gay man who moved to Stepford with his husband) feel suspicious about the women of Stepford.

They are determined to find out and reveal what was going on. They eventually do find that the women are robots! programmed to serve the needs of their husbands. As if this was not enough, all the women were very successful. There were lawyers, judges, CEOs… etc. Their husbands turned them into obedient robots simply because they could not stand their wives being more powerful than them.

At the end, Walter manages to turn all the women back into their natural states. They are human again. The film supports the idea that men are an obstacle in their way to power. However there is a twist ending the creator of the Stepford Wives was Claire, a woman. She was a successful surgeon and she murdered her husband because he cheated on her and then created this world of robotic wives. The original reason why she started this, was because of her husband not being loyal. Therefore, indirectly it is still all because of a man.

At the end, Joanna refers to her husband as “a real man” just because he did not want to turn his wife into a robot. What he had done was what he should have done. I do not think it was something that should be praised and it undermines the feminist approach of the film.

Personal Ranking: 6.5/10 (It is a good movie to pass the time but Nicole Kidman has way better films)