The Stepford Wives (2004)

After his wife (Nicole Kidman), a television executive, suffers a severe nervous breakdown, her husband (Matthew Broderick) moves the family to the quiet suburban community of Stepford in Connecticut to recuperate. But there's something not quite right about the families there, especially the wives. Based on the novel by Ira Levin (previously filmed in 1975) and directed by Frank Oz (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS). An unmitigated miscalculation! Levin's dark creepy sci-fi horror novel has been turned into an unfunny black comedy. There was enough subtle satire in the 1975 film version while still retaining the creeping horror of the town's dark secret but this version goes straight for camp. It updates the 1975 novel by adding a gay character (Roger Bart) but he's an embarrassing gay stereotype, a "camp" caricature. The original's dark ending has been jettisoned for a "happy" ending. Reputedly, nobody was happy either during the filming or with the results afterward. With Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill and Jon Lovitz.