Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Movie Overview

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 American/British neo-noir psychological thriller film that is considered a cult film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. It was Kubrick’s last film before his death. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the surreal, sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise), who is shocked by the revelation by his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long, eventful sexual adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an underground cult. The film appeared on 16 July 1999 to generally positive critical reaction. Wealthy married couple Dr. Bill and Alice Harford (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) attend a Christmas party at the home of Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack), a friend and patient of Bill’s. During the party, a Hungarian man (Sky du Mont) tries to seduce Alice while two younger models try to seduce Bill, however both Alice and Bill resist temptations. Later, Bill is summoned by Ziegler to his bathroom where he finds a naked woman, Mandy (Julienne Davis), who has ov… Source

• Eyes Wide Shut Movie Details
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Official Sites: Warner Bros. [us]
• Tagline: Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.
• Country: UK , USA
• Run Time: 159 min
• Genre: Drama , Mystery , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Tom Cruise as Dr. William 'Bill' Harford
• Nicole Kidman as Alice Harford
• Madison Eginton as Helena Harford
• Jackie Sawiris as Roz
• Sydney Pollack as Victor Ziegler
• Leslie Lowe as Illona Ziegler

Eyes Wide Shut Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Consumed by betrayal and jealousy, a wealthy Manhattan doctor becomes entangled in a a ritualistic sexual underworld when his wife admits to having lascivious sexual fantasies about another man. Source

Eyes Wide Shut Movie Review from New York Times

This last cryptic, spellbinding addition to the Kubrick canon provides a stunning epiphany for the summer of the dirty joke. It’s a dead-serious film about eros and mortality, one that flirts with the ridiculous but sustains its fundamental eeriness and gravity throughout. Tom Cruise, as a doctor caught up in a nighttime sexual odyssey of strange,… Source

Eyes Wide Shut Movie Details from Imdb

A doctor becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient’s daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick… Source

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