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The Joneses
Why this pick
Like the 2004 Stepford Wives, it turns immaculate suburban aspiration into sly, glossy social satire, with a carefully manufactured lifestyle gradually revealing its unsettling human cost.
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MOVIE2004 1h 33m USA
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Keeping Mum
Why this pick
Its polished English-village setting, cheerful domestic surface, and increasingly dark comic undercurrent echo Stepford’s blend of affluent normality, marital unease, and mischievous menace.
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The House of Yes
Why this pick
This offers the same heightened, camp-inflected dark comedy: a privileged household’s rigid ideas of family perfection become deliciously uncomfortable and increasingly bizarre.
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Serial Mom
Why this pick
John Waters similarly skewers polished suburbia through bright artificiality, outrageous humor, and a fiercely controlled homemaker whose devotion to respectability turns wonderfully sinister.
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The 'Burbs
Why this pick
For Stepford’s suburban paranoia and comic unease, this keeps the cul-de-sac setting, escalating suspicion, and playful sense that tidy neighborhood rituals conceal something very wrong.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful reality television executive producer, whose career suddenly ends due to a controversial show. With her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and their two children, she moves from Manhattan to Stepford, a quiet Fairfield County, Connecticut Connecticut suburb.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nicole Kidman
Joanna Eberhart
Matthew Broderick
Walter Kresby
Bette Midler
Bobbie Markowitz
Glenn Close
Claire Wellington
Christopher Walken
Mike Wellington
Roger Bart
Roger Bannister
Faith Hill
Sarah Sunderson
Jon Lovitz
Dave Markowitz