Eyes Wide Shut


Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic thriller film loosely based upon Arthur Schnitzlers 1926 novella Traumnovelle Dream Story. The film was directed, produced, and cowritten by Stanley Kubrick. It was his last film, as he died four days after showing his final cut to Warner Bros. studios. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a nightlong adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.

Dr. Bill Harford Tom Cruise and his wife, Alice Nicole Kidman, are a young couple living in New York. They go to a Christmas party thrown by a wealthy patient, Victor Ziegler Sydney Pollack. Bill meets an old friend from medical school, Nick Nightingale Todd Field, who now plays piano professionally. While a Hungarian man named Sandor Szavost Sky du Mont tries to pick up Alice, two young models try to take Bill off for a tryst. He is interrupted by a call from his host upstairs, who had been having sex with Mandy Julienne Davis, a young woman who has overdosed on a speedball. Mandy recovers with Bills aid.The next evening at home, while smoking cannabis, Alice asks him if he had sex with the two girls. After Bill reassures her, she asks if he is ever jealous of men who are attracted to her. As the discussion gets heated, he states that he thinks women are more faithful than men. She rebuts him, telling him of a recent fantasy she had about a naval officer they had encountered on a vacation. Disturbed by Alices revelation, Bill is then called by the daughter of a patient who has just died he then heads over to her place. In her pain, Marion Nathanson Marie Richardson impulsively kisses him and says she loves him. Putting her off before her fiance Carl Thomas Gibson arrives, Bill takes a walk. He meets a prostitute named Domino Vinessa Shaw and goes to her apartment. ........

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