The remake of the 1975 thriller “The Stepford Wives,” which opens Friday, is a quick-witted dark comedy, but the actresses who play the spouses-turned-robots think it may still spark controversy. “I ...

Cameron is a writer, artist, and journalist working from Ohio. Click here for more work! Originally, The Stepford Wives, a 1975 film adaptation of a novel with the same name, was billed as feminist ...

Put four working mothers in a room together, and even though they’re Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Glenn Close and Faith Hill, the talk inevitably turns to the ups and downs of parenthood. Sitting side ...

The original hardcover jacket calls The Stepford Wives “one of those rare novels whose very title may well become part of our vocabulary”—which is one of those rare examples of a jacket copy prophecy ...

So far, 2004 is shorter on cinematic sequels, remakes, and franchise expansions than most years, but the ones that have come out feel curiously anachronistic. What kind of time warp has a remake of ...

In this golden age of nip-and-tuck, remaking The Stepford Wives might seem like a good idea, but after you see the new version starring Nicole Kidman, you’ll probably wish that director Frank Oz and ...

Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This ...

Film remakes generally speak to cultural nostalgia, and desire. Every time that An Affair to Remember is remade, you can almost hear the collective sigh of women yearning for a time when romantic, ...

It’s some small credit to the advance of American civilization that The Stepford Wives of 2004 finds so little salvageable from ”The Stepford Wives” of 1975: The remake is, in fact, marooned in a ...