Eyes Wide Shut

1999
US
2h 39min
18

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack

Had Kubrick chosen to stage his adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 'Dream Novel' in its original 'fin de siecle' Viennese setting, audiences might have found the whole primitive Freudian mess easy to stomach. Transposing the would-be decadent psychosexual shenanigans to contemporary Manhattan, however, proves disastrous. What makes 'Eyes Wide Shut' just about watchable is the screen presence of its two stars.