Eyes Wide Shut

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Eyes Wide Shut

R

1999

2h 39m

Drama

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After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), 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.

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Critics Consensus

Kubrick's intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.

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Richard T. Jameson

Film Comment Magazine

04/10/2018

Kubrick's final film is unique in his oeuvre for concluding on a note of apparent affirmation.

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

12/14/2014

This is finally a film that is better at mood than substance, that has its strongest hold on you when it's making the least amount of sense.

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Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

12/14/2014

It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.

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Luke Y. Thompson

Mortal Cinema (Substack)

Mar 18

Kubrick fans, who understand this is his analysis of jealousy, that he took decades to finally make, dying when it was done, considering it his masterpiece...you’ll get it.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Sep 25

6/10

Even with its superb sense of unease and the idea that it’s steadily crafting a galvanizing conspiracy, it wanders off on tangents.

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Matthew Rozsa

Democracy at Work (Substack)

Aug 27

3.5/4

“The women involved have been silenced before and will be forgotten again,” Ritzenhoff said. “It is the drama around male privilege that has the entertainment value.”

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Elise

Mar 7

Genuinely very interesting film. Had a hard time orienting myself for the first 20 minutes, but it locked me in. Kubrick is a very particular filmmaker and not to everyone's taste. This work is about a man with presumptions around marriage, sex, sexuality, and gender who's cut down at the knees by a revelation from his wife, causing a spiraling journey through one night across New York. I forget sometimes how masterful Kubrick is at creating sequences with such gravity and precision that you're totally sucked in and along for the ride.

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Miguel rodriguez

Feb 26

Expose on the elite. When will the working class wake up?

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Jayzon

Feb 26

Perfect film and theatre was quiet so great film and great experience

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Dominick

12/24/2024

No matter the debate over just how complete it is or what it’s trying to say, Eyes Wide Shut remains a remarkable achievement in a filmography stacked with them. It perfectly encapsulates the many sides and moods of Stanley Kubrick, flitting with dreamlike sensibilities, dark humor, stark cinematography and thematic ambiguity

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Rene M

12/13/2024

Greatest film of all time

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Romas M

@Romas May 1

Greetings from Lithuania. "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) is a movie that I saw like 3 times now as of 2026, and every time it strikes me a bit differently. First time I saw it like in 2002 when I was a teenager and I liked it, because of many things. Now rewatching it 2026 for like a third time it just strikes of how many things this movie showed that later came out to be true regarding the entire underworld of sex parties and etc. not to mention names. "Eyes Wide Shut" is the last movie made by a legendary Stanley Kubrick. It is not his best by far but it is his film trough and trough. The cinematography, pacing, lighting, set design, editing - it is all to reminiscent of previous films by Kubrick. No other movies feels like his - period. Acting was great as expected by leads but it's the calm and chilling performance of Sydney Pollack that always stood out for me. Music is haunting. Overall, "Eyes Wide Shut" is a long, slowly paced but ultimately rewarding movie experience.

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Synopsis

After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), 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.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzer
Distributor: Argentina Video Home, Warner Sogefilms S.A. [es], Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Pole Star, Warner Brothers, Hobby Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Some Drug Related Material|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 16, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 4, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $55.7M
Runtime: 2h 39m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)