The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who suspects the submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighborhood may be robots created by their husbands.
Adaptations (5)
The Stepford Wives has been adapted 5 times, across film and television film, from 1975 to 2012. The most recent is Sechzehneichen (2012).
The Stepford Wives1975 · film · 115 min · dir. Bryan Forbes · IMDb ↗Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Revenge of the Stepford Wives1980 · television film · 96 min · dir. Robert Fuest · IMDb ↗IMDb4.9A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean-cut as it seems.
The Stepford Children1987 · television film · 96 min · dir. Alan J. Levi · IMDb ↗IMDb5.1Steven 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 time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
The Stepford Wives2004 · film · 93 min · dir. Frank Oz · IMDb ↗What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Sechzehneichen2012 · television film · 90 min · dir. Henk Handloegten · IMDb ↗IMDb5.6A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Basically a thinly veiled take on the Stepford Wives, just without any bit of humor or atmosphere, but instead filled with the sterile, unflinching and dry seriousness that makes watching a lot of our German films such a drag and a miserable experience.
