Episode 97 of Adapt or Perish just moved in, and gosh, isn’t Stepford simply beautiful? In this episode, we’re taking a look at The Stepford Wives! Who are brainwashed or robots, maybe? It's complicated.
In this episode we discuss:
- Ira Levin's original 1972 novel
- The 1975 movie adaptation, directed by Bryan Forbes, written by William Goldman, and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise
- The 2004 remake, directed by Frank Oz, written by Paul Rudnick, and starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, and Christopher Walken
Footnotes:
- Rosemary's Baby
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
- Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
- Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
- The Stepford Children (1987)
- The Stepford Husbands (1996)
- In & Out (1997)
- Frank Oz on The Stepford Wives
- Bette's Midler's insane deleted scene