The Stepford Children The Stepford Children The Stepford Children is a 1987 American made-for-television science fiction-thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Alan J. Levi with a screenplay by Bill Bleich and starring Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Randall Batinkoff and Pat Corley. It is the second in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". Laura and Steven Harding (Barbara Eden and Don Murray) move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had
Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon seldom achieved in the cinema." They judge that Shirakawa gives the film, "a wide-eyed innocence that is both fresh and convincing." The success of "Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon" inspired 20 direct sequels—four in 1972—and numerous unofficial sequels and series. Shōgorō Nishimura became a regular Nikkatsu director, helming seven of the "Apartment Wife" sequels. Kazuko Shirakawa became Nikkatsu's first Roman Porno queen. Though she appeared in only the first "Apartment Wife" sequel, titles to unrelated films in which she starred, such as "Afternoon Affair: Rear Window" and "Affair At Twilight" (both 1972), capitalized on the success of her first