Continuity mistake: When at the Men's Association, Mike Wellington raises a glass and toasts Stepford. He does this with his left hand. When the shot changes to show all the men, he is still doing it with his left hand. But when the shot changes back to Mike, the glass is now in his right hand, with no time between shots to change hands.
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Directed by: Frank Oz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette Midler
Continuity mistake: It's raining when Joanna goes to the Men's Association to find her husband and children. When she walks in the door her hair is wet but her clothes are completely dry. (01:01:50)
Visible crew/equipment: When Walter is driving down the highway with his family in tow, right after he explains to his kids why they're moving, he looks over at Joe with her head slumped against the window, and the reflection of some filming equipment (possibly the camera) is seen on the window at the bottom-right corner of the screen. (00:13:20)
Trivia: When Walter is explaining to Joanna about him being inferior, he says, "...being the wind beneath your wings..." Bette Midler (Bobbie) sang a song called "The Wind Beneath My Wings" from the movie Beaches.
Trivia: The original cut of the movie made it clear that the wives had been replaced by robots. After test audiences hated this revelation, Frank Oz decided to do re shoots to make the wives simply humans with microchips in their brains. With the elimination of a sequence featuring an out-of-control Bette Midler robot and other scenes, this created numerous plot holes and inconsistencies. In a 2007 interview, Frank Oz admitted that the decisions he made were wrong and the film tanked because he "didn't follow his instincts".
Stepford Wife: I'm going to use a pinecone as the baby Jesus this year.
Bobbi Markowitz: And I'm going to attach a pinecone to my vibrator and have a really merry Christmas.
Walter Kresby: First of all we are in the country now, so no more black.
Joanna Eberhart: No more black? Are you insane?
Walter Kresby: You heard me. Only high-powered, neurotic, castrating, Manhattan career bitches wear black. Is that what you want to be?
Joanna Eberhart: Ever since I was a little girl.
Mike Wellington: My real name isn't Mike, it's just a nickname from where I used to work.
Joanna Eberhard: Where?
Mike Wellington: Microsoft.
Ted Van Sant: NASA.
Vic Stevens: Disney.
Stan Peters: AOL.
Joanna Eberhard: Is that why the women are so slow?
Question: Is the name Roger Bannister significant? Roger Bannister was the first man to run a four minute mile, is this a coincidence?
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Answer: He was the first man to run a sub 4 minute mile,but there doesn't appear to be anything more than coincedence.