The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science-fiction horror film directed by Bryan Forbes based on the 1972 novel by the same name of Ira Levin.
Plot[]
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family. There she discovers, that most of the female residents are perfect, submissive housewives. With the help of another Newcomer, Bobby Markowe, she begins to investigate.
She notices they all behave like they were programmed to do so, because they do not behave differntly in the slightest. She also realizes, how another one like her, who she also knew there, suddenly becomes like them.
Shortly after that Bobby suddenly becomes like them, while one night her children are away from her home and her husband insist she stays home. Determined to find out what is going on, she confronts Bobby and, in a fit of impulsive anger, she stabs her once with a knife. There she discovers the truth. She is a robot.
She also discovers that she and the other wives in Stepford have been murdered and replaced by such robots by a Pro-Men organization who wants such wives, while also realising that a robot has been made of her, too, who later strangles her with the approval of her own husband, who joined this organization, too.
After that "Joanne" acts like nearly all the other "wives" in this town, while Walters lives happily ever after with "her" and his children. In the meantime it is also indicated, that others, who have also appeared, also are going to suffer the same fate in the town.
Cast[]
- Katharine Ross as Joanna Eberhart
- Paula Prentiss as Bobbie Markowe
- Peter Masterson as Walter Eberhart
- Nanette Newman as Carol van Sant
- Tina Louise as Charmaine Wimperis
- Patrick O'Neal as Dale "Diz" Coba
- Josef Sommer as Ted van Sant
- Franklin Cover as Ed Wimperis
