TITLE: The Stepford Wives
YEAR: 1975
DIR: Bryan Forbes
WRITER: William Goldman (from novel by Ira Levin)

SYNOPSIS:
A woman moves to Stepford, Connecticut.
The wives are too perfect.
Too passive.
Too silent.
Too obedient.
She investigates.
They replace the women.

THEMES:

• Domestic automation
• Gendered control
• Suburban dystopia
• Techno-patriarchy masked as utopia

NOTES:
A slow horror.
Feminism processed into paranoia.
The appliance becomes the wife.
The wife becomes obsolete.

ALERT:
Narrative rebooted in 2004 (weaker signal).