box office, though it received mixed reviews from critics.
The film stars Katharine Ross as a woman who relocates with her husband ( Peter Masterson) and children from New York City to the Connecticut community of Stepford, where she comes to find that the women live lives of unwavering subservience to their husbands.įilmed in Connecticut in 1974, The Stepford Wives premiered theatrically in February 1975. It was written by William Goldman, who based his screenplay on Ira Levin's 1972 novel of the same name. The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American satirical psychological thriller film directed by Bryan Forbes.
