Eyes Wide Shut 1999

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 159 min

genre: mystery

theme: psychological drama

director: Stanley Kubrick

Score: 8 / 10

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The plot centers on a doctor (Tom Cruise) who is shocked when his wife (Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair the previous summer. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society.

Plot

Dr. William "Bill" Harford and his wife Alice live in New York City with their daughter, Helena. At a Christmas party hosted by Bill's patient, Victor Ziegler, Bill reconnects with his former medical school classmate, Nick Nightingale, now a professional pianist. Meanwhile, an older Hungarian guest attempts to seduce Alice, while two young models try to seduce Bill. Victor interrupts Bill's flirtation to handle an emergency involving Mandy, a young woman who overdosed during sex with him. Bill helps stabilize Mandy.

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More details

author	Frederic Raphael Stanley Kubrick
contentLocation	New York City
director	Stanley Kubrick
editor	Nigel Galt
events	adultery human sexuality
genre	adventure drama mystery thriller
keywords	cannabis christmas party disturb drug addiction even hiv-positive people id illuminati jazz club laugh marijuana mask master of ceremonies medical school mysterious figure naval officer older men read school class secret society shop teenage daughter warn young woman
musicBy	Dmitri Shostakovich Franz Liszt György Ligeti Jocelyn Pook
producer	Stanley Kubrick
productionCompany	Hobby Films Pole Star Stanley Kubrick Productions
publisher	Warner Bros. Pictures
recordedAt	New York City Pinewood Studios
theme	erotic thriller mystery thriller psychological drama