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Storyline

After 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

1999-07-16
Revenue

$162,100,000
Budget

$65,000,000
Runtime

2hr 39m
Genre

Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Status

Released
Language

English
7.5
Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Stanley Kubrick Productions

Crew

Stanley Kubrick

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay

Stanley Kubrick

Producer

Keywords:

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Cast

Tom Cruise

Dr. William Harford

Nicole Kidman

Alice Harford

Sydney Pollack

Victor Ziegler

Marie Richardson

Marion

Rade Šerbedžija

Milich

Todd Field

Nick Nightingale

Vinessa Shaw

Domino

Alan Cumming

Desk Clerk

Sky du Mont

Sandor Szavost

Fay Masterson

Sally

Leelee Sobieski

Milich's Daughter

Thomas Gibson

Carl

Madison Eginton

Helena Harford

Julienne Davis

Mandy

Jackie Sawiris

Roz

Leslie Lowe

Illona

Peter Hans Benson

Bandleader

Michael Doven

Ziegler's Secretary

Louise J. Taylor

Gayle

Stewart Thorndike

Nuala

Randall Paul

Harris

Lisa Leone

Lisa

Kevin Connealy

Lou Nathanson

Mariana Hewett

Rosa

Dan Rollman

Rowdy College Kid

Gavin Parry

Rowdy College Kid

Chris Pare

Rowdy College Kid

Adam Lias

Rowdy College Kid

Christian Clarke

Rowdy College Kid

Kyle Whitcombe

Rowdy College Kid

Gary Goba

Naval Officer

Florian Windorfer

Maître D' - Café Sonata

Togo Igawa

Japanese Man #1

Eiji Kusuhara

Japanese Man #2

Sam Douglas

Cab Driver

Angus MacInnes

Gateman #1

Abigail Good

Mysterious Woman / Masked Party Principal

Brian W. Cook

Tall Butler

Leon Vitali

Red Cloak

Carmela Marner

Waitress at Gillespie's

Phil Davies

Stalker

Cindy Dolenc

Girl at Sharky's

Clark Hayes

Hospital Receptionist

Treva Etienne

Morgue Orderly

Colin Angus

Masked Party Principal

Karla Ashley

Masked Party Principal

Kate Charman

Masked Party Principal

James Demaria

Masked Party Principal

Tony De Sergio

Masked Party Principal

Janie Dickens

Masked Party Principal

Laura Fallace

Masked Party Principal

Vanessa Fenton

Masked Party Principal

Georgina Finch

Masked Party Principal

Peter Godwin

Masked Party Principal

Joanna Heath

Masked Party Principal

Lee Henshaw

Masked Party Principal

Ateeka Poole

Masked Party Principal

Adam Pudney

Masked Party Principal

Sharon Quinn

Masked Party Principal

Ben De Saumserez

Masked Party Principal

Emma Lou Sharratt

Masked Party Principal

Paul Spelling

Masked Party Principal

Matthew Thompson

Masked Party Principal

Dan Travers

Masked Party Principal

Russell Trigg

Masked Party Principal

Kate Whalin

Masked Party Principal

Cate Blanchett

Mysterious Woman (voice) (uncredited)

Jerson David Ambion

Masked Party Principal (uncredited)

Shelsie Blake

Hula Dancer (uncredited)

John N. Campbell

Masked Party Guest (uncredited)

Emilio D'Alessandro

Man at Newsstand (uncredited)

Paul Desbois

Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)

Donna Ewin

Masked Party Principal (uncredited)

Sam Heydon

Masked Party Principal (uncredited)

Alex Hobbs

Boy in Examination Room (uncredited)

Christiane Kubrick

Woman Behind Dr. Harford at Café Sonata (uncredited)

Katharina Kubrick

Mother of Boy in Examination Room (uncredited)

Taylor Murphy

Masked Party Principal (uncredited)

Graham Skidmore

Background Artist (uncredited)

Stanley Kubrick

Man at Café Sonata (uncredited)

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Reviews for Eyes Wide Shut

A Review by FilipeManuelNeto 10

Written by FilipeManuelNeto on 2022-08-31

**It doesn't matter if it's Stanley Kubrick's best or worst. It's a movie that makes you think.** Stanley Kubrick is one of those filmmak... read more

**It doesn't matter if it's Stanley Kubrick's best or worst. It's a movie that makes you think.** Stanley Kubrick is one of those filmmakers who didn't make a lot of films. Over the course of his forty-year career, he only made thirteen feature films. Very little... However, if we look closely, almost all of them are familiar and immediately entered the pantheon of cinema. They are not perfect films, nor was Kubrick perfect no matter how methodical he was, and there are films of his that are unpalatable (I've already written that in some of them). But each of them, for its reasons, is its own, a very different work. In this film, he makes a case study around desire, sexuality and how we, individually or as a couple, deal with it. The script follows a doctor and his wife. An apparently happy couple who, after a party where they both flirted with other people (without consequences), have a fight where she, perhaps to take away his self-confidence, confesses that she wanted to have another man, some time ago. The revelation leaves the doctor speechless. That night, he doesn't seem to know what he wants: he desires other women, but refuses their advances. But when a pianist friend tells him about a strange party, full of beauties, where he has to play blindfolded, he wants to see it up close. Yes, the party was a gigantic chic orgy, with touches of unholy religious ritual to accentuate the sense of sin and lust. Of course, the unwary guy ends up being discovered and unmasked… and from there, the film becomes denser, with the character increasingly afraid of what might happen to him. The film makes us think a lot about sexuality, monogamy, the importance we give to marital fidelity. I don't know what it was like in 1999, but today it's common to see couples in open relationships, or relatively discreet saunas and swing clubs that throw liberal parties with some regularity. There is still a universe apart – private parties, organized by social networks and for guests only – and it is true that the rich and famous are much more demanding with the reservation of their intimacy, especially when they do naughty things. But what the film proposes to us is, not so much the refusal of monogamy, but that we think about the way we give up all other sexual partners when we really fall in love. The notion of personal sacrifice runs through the entire film (a woman who gives up an erotic fantasy for love, another who proposes to die in order to save an innocent, a man who refuses sex because he is married) and indicates that the best bonds we create in life involve choices and sacrifices in exchange for something greater. In fact, to be happy in a marriage, you need to keep your eyes wide shut to temptations. With a very good and well written story, the film develops the characters very well and allows us to get to know them. For that, the film doesn't mind taking a slower pace that can leave some audiences exasperated. Decisive was the choice of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman for the main roles. At the time, they were Hollywood's pretty couple, and there's no doubt that Kubrick knew how to exploit their enormous personal and intimate chemistry, transporting it to the characters and the film. In fact, this may not be Kubrick's best film (that's relative!) but, for me, it's Cruise's best film so far. Technically, the film has many positives. Kubrick gave an almost maniacal attention to detail and took his time filming. And we can see how each scene was shot in a detailed way, with the camera moving precisely, cuts surgically made, very long and very well edited scenes, taking advantage of the excellent cinematography and sets (where, of course, the mansion of the party stands out). Even more important is the way the director was able to work with the environment and the tension, growing and almost palpable. There is a lot of nudity in this film, including frontal nudity (Kidman herself did scenes where she is practically naked) and some sex scenes that, if not explicit, are very visual. Even so, the film is not, surprisingly, very erotic. I think the director didn't want sex to distract us or cut that tension he was looking for. As for the sound and soundtrack, I think it does its job well, but I didn't find it particularly remarkable.