

The patient's daughter, Marion, tries to seduce Bill, but he resists.Īfter leaving Marion's, Bill meets a prostitute named Domino. Bill is disturbed before being called to a patient's house. Alice admits to fantasizing about a naval officer she met on vacation and considered leaving Bill and Helena. Bill isn't jealous of other men's attraction to Alice, believing women to be naturally faithful. The next night, while smoking marijuana, Alice and Bill discuss their unfulfilled temptations. Host Victor interrupts with news of an overdose by Mandy, a young woman he was having sex with. An older Hungarian guest attempts to seduce Alice, while two young models try to seduce Bill. At a Christmas party hosted by patient Victor Ziegler, Bill reunites with old medical school classmate Nick Nightingale, who now plays piano professionally. William "Bill" Harford and his wife Alice live in New York City with their daughter Helena.

Eyes Wide Shut has been included in several lists of the greatest films of the 1990s.ĭr. The uncut version has since been released in DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Box office receipts for the film worldwide were about $162 million, making it Kubrick's highest-grossing film. This version was premiered on July 13, 1999, before being released on July 16, to moderately positive reactions from film critics. digitally altered several sexually explicit scenes during post-production. In order to ensure a theatrical R rating in the United States, Warner Bros. He reportedly considered it his "greatest contribution to the art of cinema". Kubrick died six days after showing the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Bros., making it the final film he directed. The film's production, at 400 days, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot. The film, which was mostly shot in England, apart from some exterior establishing shots, includes a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes made at Pinewood Studios. He revived the project in the 1990s when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society. The plot centers on a doctor ( Tom Cruise) who is shocked when his wife ( Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. It is based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle ( Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.
