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commercial success, was nominated for time in character, and the movie was shot
and won several awards. almost entirely in sequence.”
Nashville: The Stepford Wives:
Robert Altman’s musical Based on the psychological
drama is considered as horror satire by Ira Levin,
one of the best films of all the film directed by Bryan
time. It has an ensemble Forbes, starred Katherine
cast of 24 actors and Ross as a woman who
terrific music. The film moves to a town called
with multiple, intersecting Stepford with her husband
storylines, follows a bunch of people from (Peter Masterson) and children and finds
the gospel and country music industry that the women are strangely subservient
in Nashville, Tennessee, over a five- to their husbands and obsessed with
day period as they work towards a big maintaining impeccable homes. The
fundraiser for a presidential candidate. film received a mixed response, but has
The film was nominated for a total of grown into a cult since then and the
Golden Globe Awards, to date the highest term Stepford Wife has come to denote a
number of nominations received by one robotic woman who has no individuality.
film. The process of making the film was The concept was picked up by other
also experimental. According to imdb. sci-fi films, and it has several sequels,
com, it was improvised by the actors and inspired the popular TV series, Desperate
actresses, who used the screenplay only as Housewives and was remade in 2024
a guide. They spent a great amount of their with Nicole Kidman.
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