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
Jenifer Levin both fall in love with her. The "New York Times" noted that Levin involved her readers successfully in "an odd world", but criticized the characters' depth and the lack of resolution to their difficulties. Levin is Jewish. Her third novel, "Shimoni's Lover", was set in Israel. In 1993 she produced "The Sea of Light", which the "Dallas Morning News" called "beautiful and probing." "The Sea of Light" was voted 8th in a Bywater Books (a lesbian publisher) poll of the ten most important lesbian novels of the 20th century. Her fifth published book, "Love and Death and Other Disasters", collected