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Series: Stepford
Original release / air date: 15 March 1987
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: NBC
Production company / studio: Edgar J. Scherick Associates; Taft Entertainment Television; Gary Hoffman Productions
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

The Harding family moves to Stepford, where the Men's Association is still replacing family members with obedient artificial doubles. This time the programme has expanded beyond wives to teenagers.

ASFR Content

The film returns to the robot-double concept of the original Stepford story and extends it to children. Lois and Mary are replaced by highly convincing artificial copies, Mary's double visibly malfunctions after attacking Laura, and the climax reveals the biological originals being processed while their robot replacements are prepared.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Lois returns as an artificial double

After Lois is taken following her motorcycle crash, she reappears apparently normal but with her personality replaced by the blank, obedient behaviour characteristic of Stepford's artificial children.

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Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Mary's robot double malfunctions

Mary's duplicate attacks Laura with a knife. Laura throws the apparently human girl to the floor, causing the artificial double to malfunction.

Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

The original children and replacement process are revealed

Laura discovers the real Mary restrained inside the Men's Association and sees the town's children undergoing the process by which they are replaced with obedient robot doubles.

Scene 4
Major

The Stepford replacement facility explodes

Damage to the replacement machinery triggers an explosion that destroys the Men's Association and the ongoing artificial-child conversion operation.

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