Does your boyfriend long for the "good old days" when women stayed home, always looked ultra-hot, cooked great meals and just lived to grant their guy's every wish? Guys, be careful what you wish for.

She's the epitome of the high-powered controlling woman. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a TV network top exec who puts on ruthless reality t.v. shows like "I Can Do Better" and others that foster female power over men. When one guy can't take it, he tries to kill her in front of all the network affiliates! Joanna is fired, has a nervous breakdown (I know but trust, me, this is funny) and moves to the suburbs with lower-level TV exec hubby Walter (Matthew Broderick) and her two neglected kids. Joanna hopes to save her failing marriage and reclaim what's left of her soul.

In the postcard-perfect, gated, upper crusty community of Stepford, Connecticut, Joanna is dropped in the midst of a 1950's nightmare. All the wives are dressed to the nines 24-7 and aren't interested in anything but cooking, cleaning and making less-than-hot hubbies happy with a little "afternoon delight". They all drive boring identical SUVs while the guys all have hot sports cars. Joanna remarks with horror "These women are like deranged flight attendants!" Then, there is the very weird Stepford "Men's Association" a secret Frat-house style organization where Walter starts spending all his time. Joanna is in hell and bonds with the only other black sheep rejects in town, opinionated writer Bobbi Markowitz (Bette Midler) and gay architect Roger Bannister (Roger Bart) whose life partner brought him here as well.