Revenge of the Stepford Wives
| Revenge of the Stepford Wives | |
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| Genre | Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller |
| Based on |
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin |
| Written by | David Wiltse |
| Directed by | Robert Fuest |
| Starring |
Sharon Gless Julie Kavner Don Johnson Audra Lindley Arthur Hill Mason Adams |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Edgar J. Scherick |
| Producer(s) | Scott Rudin |
| Cinematography | Ric Waite |
| Editor(s) | Jerrold L. Ludwic |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Distributor | Edgar J. Scherick Productions Embassy Television (1986 Video) |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 12, 1980 (USA) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Stepford Wives |
| Followed by | The Stepford Children |
Revenge of the Stepford Wives is a 1980 American made-for-television science fiction-thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives. It was directed by Robert Fuest with a screenplay by David Wiltse and starring Sharon Gless, Julie Kavner, Don Johnson, Arthur Hill, and Audra Lindley. It is the first in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film The Stepford Wives.
Set 10 years after the original film, a prologue sets the scene as a couple unhappy in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, attempts to leave town; they are killed by the police chief.
Spirited investigative TV reporter Kaye Foster (Gless) arrives in Stepford to do a story on the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates and the tightest real-estate market in the country. She immediately notices the beautiful, but compliant and domestic women of the town, who take a pill four times a day when an eerie siren sounds (they each claim it's for a thyroid condition). Kaye meets Megan and Andy Brady (Kavner and Johnson), newcomers to town. Megan is refreshingly down to earth, and Andy is interviewing to join the police force and become a member of the Stepford Men's Association, headed by refined but vaguely hostile Dale "Diz" Coba (Hill). Kaye needs a research assistant, and after being turned off by the seemingly plastic and subservient women of Stepford, she jumps at the chance to hire Megan.
Kaye is shaken when Barbara Parkinson (Lindley) "accidentally" nearly runs her down with her car, then exhibits strange, repetitive behavior at the accident site, yet has no recollection of the incident the next day. Disillusioned hotel manager Wally (Adams) seems guiltily on the verge of divulging something important to Kaye about his wife's inability to change, when another attempt is made on Kaye's life.
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