Frank Oz made the wonderfully entertaining screwball comedy ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ in 1988. It had mean characters and a lot of laughs. Stepford Wives lacks the former and almost hence lacks the latter as well. It wants us to enjoy a film that is lacking soul so completely that the whole idea is a bit frightening.
This remake of an insipid 1974 film could have been a little more insipid if Nicole Kidman had not decided to take a breather from her recent tough tiring roles. She is beautiful and the only thing really worth watching in this film.
A film about a suburb in Connecticut that is endowed with these ideal wives who are too wooden and ‘nice’ to be true. Ms. Kidman is an outsider. An exhausted depressed top executive who has just been fired from her job. Matthew Broderick plays her dysfunctional husband. Together they decide to come to Stepford to find peace. What they find are pieces, real metallic pieces of people. What follows is highly predicable, generally unfunny attempt at TV comedy that doesn’t quite work on the big screen.
A film full of actors but no acting. A film full of pretty women but not beautiful. It goes to say how difficult it is to make a good film. The ingredients are really never enough.
This remake of an insipid 1974 film could have been a little more insipid if Nicole Kidman had not decided to take a breather from her recent tough tiring roles. She is beautiful and the only thing really worth watching in this film.
A film about a suburb in Connecticut that is endowed with these ideal wives who are too wooden and ‘nice’ to be true. Ms. Kidman is an outsider. An exhausted depressed top executive who has just been fired from her job. Matthew Broderick plays her dysfunctional husband. Together they decide to come to Stepford to find peace. What they find are pieces, real metallic pieces of people. What follows is highly predicable, generally unfunny attempt at TV comedy that doesn’t quite work on the big screen.
A film full of actors but no acting. A film full of pretty women but not beautiful. It goes to say how difficult it is to make a good film. The ingredients are really never enough.