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A festering secret is hidden underneath the suburban bliss of Stepford, Connecticut with its wide tree-lined streets, pastel lounge suites and impossibly beautiful wives. Aspiring photographer Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) reluctantly moves with her husband and two kids from the bustle of New York City to the picturesque yet dull small town. The men all belong to a mysterious Stepford Men’s Club and Joanna’s neighbours are unnervingly too picture perfect, especially the wives. The Stepford Wives horror plays out in gloriously sunny days and pleasant backyard barbecue gatherings as an acidly cutting commentary on domineering chauvinistic culture. The film explores the creeping dread that for all the promises of 1970s feminism perhaps women are still beholden to the whims of their husbands and that all a man wants is a well-behaved housewife who looks the part.