When somebody wants to insult a certain type of complicit passiveness, they can casually call the person in question a “Stepford Wife.” And anyone who makes this assertion about a person who ...

The film ends with the “new” Joanna drifting vacantly through the supermarket, now dressed and coiffed like all the other Stepford wives. Ira Levin, who died in 2007, said that he based the ...