The Stepford Wives (1975 Josh’s Pick)

Awesome Movie Year

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features Josh’s personal pick, Ira Levin adaptation The Stepford Wives. Directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by William Goldman (based on Levin’s novel) and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson and Patrick O’Neal, The Stepford Wives garnered mixed response but has become a cult classic and entered the pop-culture lexicon.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-stepford-wives-1975), Janet Maslin in The Boston Phoenix, and Molly Haskell in the Village Voice.

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