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All the books by Ira Levin adapted to cinema and television, ranked
In 1965, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City. They ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past with witchcraft and murder. Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly neighbors, took in.
Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. Ezra Lieberman, an aging Nazi hunter, will discover a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Joanna Eberhart is a young wife who moves with her husband Walter and their two daughters from Manhattan to the idyllic Fairfield County, Connecticut, suburb of Stepford. Along with the glamorously beautiful tennis playing trophy wife Charmaine Wimperis, the three organize a women’s liberation meeting, but the gathering is a failure when the other wives continually divert the discussion to cleaning products.
Joanna Eberhart is a successful reality television executive producer, whose career suddenly ends after an attempted shootout by a disillusioned reality show participant. Walter tries to walk out of their marriage, but Joanna appeases him by trying to fit in with the other Stepford wives.
In this sequel to The Stepford Wives, Steven and Laura Harding have moved to the quiet community of Stepford, CT. Steven joins the men’s club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids.