"Why? Because we can"

Amazing movie, frighteningly realistic, still very relevant, unfortunately.
May be even more relevant than ever.

Also all the women are breathtakingly beautiful.

In terms of premise, it's the science-fiction equivalent of Rosemary's Baby. In The Stepford Wives, a woman is also moving to a new place where the people are strange, and her controlling husband soon follows suit. Filled with an anxiety about losing oneself in a marriage and becoming an accessory to a successful husband, Joanna (Katharine Ross) makes a good feminist hero, bristling at the vapid subservience of the suburban wives around her, and trying to figure out the mystery of their "conversions". This is one of those movies that has since become iconic ("Stepford Wife" has passed into the English idiom), so the mystery's solution is well known. To the film's credit, it doesn't matter. There is such great care taken with with themes involved that there's plenty of interest along the way. Knowing what we do, an early scene with a teddy bear takes on great relevance, for example, and the set dressing is always thoughtful too. One of the great paranoid sf thrillers of the '70s.

Fantastic film that falters just a bit at the end. Owen Roizman's extensive work in fashion and advertising really makes the visuals sing.