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Title: Nicole Kidman... a robot???
Review: Ira Levin's famous suburban Gothic THE STEPFORD WIVES already has so much black comic potential built into its premise that making this remake of the much loved 1975 film into an all-out comedy was a mistake from the get-go. So was assembling the creative team and the cast: director Frank Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick are hardly known for the light touch this approach would have required, and nor are Bette Midler and Jon Lovitz (in important supporting roles). Glenn Close and Christopher Walken also seem oddly chosen for a comedy, but the worst miscasting is Nicole Kidman as the heroine, Joanna Eberhart. With her wafer-thin arms and torso and flawless, highly polished skin, she hardly makes the ideal choice to be the mouthpiece for accepting human imperfection.
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