The Stepford Wives
(1974)
Katherine Ross, long remembered as Mrs. Robinson's daughter in The
Graduate, plays the lead role in this screen adaptation of Ira
Levin's chilling novel of a twisted sort of utopia.
A family uproot itself from the chaos of life in New York city
to resettle in the picture perfect suburbia of Stepford. It
doesn't take long for Ross to realise that something is seriously
wrong with the townsfolk.
The women are obsessed with cleaning their kitchens,
meticulously and slavishly cooking all day long for their
husbands, adorning themselves to look beautiful for their men,
pruning the garden, shopping endlessly, and discussing the virtues
of "Easy On" spray as opposed to another brand . . .
basically they are like 95% of the women in Islamabad..
The women are totally vacuous - their only aim in life is to be
attractive domestic robots for their coven of Ivy League
husbands.
The sinister truth is gradually revealed as one by one even the
few normal people in Ross's life are transformed into Barbie doll
clones.
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