The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller-drama film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Fred Walton with a screenplay by brothers Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat and starring Donna Mills, Michael Ontkean, Cindy Williams, Sarah Douglas and Louise Fletcher. It is the third in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". In a prologue, a docile man suddenly kills his wife in a violent method and then commits suicide. Several months later, graphic artist Jodi and struggling author
Man and Wife (novel) Man and Wife (novel) Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins’ ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after "No Name") in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were regarded in Scotland