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The Stepford Wives is a 1975 sci-fi/horror film based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman. Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson and Tina Louise all starred in the film, which also marked the screen debut of brat pack actress Mary Stuart Masterson. It was remade in 2004.
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Joanna Eberhart (Ross) is a young wife who moves with her husband (Masterson) and two children from New York City to the small Connecticut suburb of Stepford. She makes friends with another newcomer to town, Bobbie Markowe (Prentiss), and they start investigating, with ever-increasing concern, the oddly submissive and bland behavior of the other wives in town. The freewheeling Bobbie abruptly changes into another housewife, and then "breaks down" instead of dying when a desperate Joanna stabs her with a kitchen knife. Joanna sneaks into the mansion which is the headquarters of the town's "Men's Association" where she finds graphic confirmation that the women have all been replaced with robot duplicates. She is killed by her own duplicate, who is then seen placidly purchasing groceries at the local supermarket, along with the rest of the Wives.