Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The plot centers on a Manhattan doctor who is shocked when his wife reveals that she contemplated cheating on him. He embarks on a night-long adventure and infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, and transfers the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.
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Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 film by Stanley Kubrick starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman about a Manhattan doctor who, after learning his wife considered infidelity, spends a night exploring the city and infiltrating a secret society's masked orgy. The film adapts a 1926 Austrian novella, relocating its Vienna setting to 1990s New York City, and is considered significant as a major late-career work from one of cinema's most acclaimed directors.
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7.5After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Released: 1999-07-16160 minDir: Stanley KubrickDrama, Thriller, MysteryBudget: $65.0MBox office: $162M
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Dr. William Harford
- Nicole Kidman as Alice Harford
- Sydney Pollack as Victor Ziegler
- Marie Richardson as Marion
- Rade Šerbedžija as Milich
- Todd Field as Nick Nightingale
Themes
- new york city
- prostitute
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Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic psychological mystery thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The plot centers on a Manhattan doctor who is shocked when his wife reveals that she contemplated cheating on him. He embarks on a night-long adventure and infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler, and transfers the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.
Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He revived the project in the 1990s when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. An international co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, principal photography of Eyes Wide Shut began in late 1996 in England, with a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes built at Pinewood Studios. The film's production, at 400 days, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot.