Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
80%RT Audience Score: 74%
Awards & Nominations: 12 wins & 30 nominations
Kubrick’s intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work
Eyes Wide Shut is like a Christmas present that you’re not sure you wanted, but once you open it, you can’t look away. The film is a beautiful and surreal journey through the mind of Stanley Kubrick, with stunning set design and costumes that make you feel like you’re in a dream. While some critics may say it lacks substance, I say it’s a thrilling exploration of honesty and consequences in a high-class marriage. Plus, Tom Cruise gives a fiercely committed performance that will leave you wide-eyed and wanting more.
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
Argentina Video Home, Warner Sogefilms S.A. [es], Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
Elveden Hall, Elveden, Suffolk, England, UK
MPAA / Certificate
TV-MA
Year of Release
1999
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:NA
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Runtime:2h 39m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States, United Kingdom
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jul 16, 1999 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2005
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Eyes Wide Shut, drama, 2h 39m, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzer, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Richard T Jameson, Kenneth Turan, Stephen Hunter, Paul Tatara, Peter Bradshaw, John Hartl, MPAA rating R, sexual content, underground sexual group, obsession, human psyche, marital infidelity, psychological thriller, dream-like sequences, eerie, melancholy, wandering, lost vibe, American Beauty, NSFW, A Clockwork Orange, Chris Isaak, reversed chanting, Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR, Flat (1.85:1), Argentina Video Home, Warner Sogefilms S.A [es], Warner Bros Pictures, Dr William Harford, Alice Harford, Victor Ziegler, Marion, Mr Milich, Nick Nightingale
Worldwide gross: $162,242,684
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $291,230,141
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 519
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 31,759,012
US/Canada gross: $55,691,208
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $99,967,271
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 753
US/Canada opening weekend: $21,706,163
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $38,963,168
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 327
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $65,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $116,676,812
Production budget ranking: 326
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $62,830,463
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $111,722,866
ROI to date (est.): 62%
ROI ranking: 1,089
Nicole Kidman – Alice Harford
Sydney Pollack – Victor Ziegler
Marie Richardson – Marion
Rade Serbedzija – Mr. Milich
Todd Field – Nick Nightingale
Stanley Kubrick – Director, Producer, Writer
Frederic Raphael – Writer
Arthur Schnitzer – Writer
Director(s)
Stanley Kubrick
Writer(s)
Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzer
Producer(s)
Stanley Kubrick
Film Festivals
Venice
Awards & Nominations
12 wins & 30 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (159) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (120) | Rotten (39)
Kubrick’s final film is unique in his oeuvre for concluding on a note of apparent affirmation.
April 10, 2018
Richard T. Jameson
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
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.
December 14, 2014
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
It’s empty of ideas, which is fine, but it’s also empty of heat.
December 14, 2014
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
TOP CRITIC
At least Fellini pulled out the stops from the first minute when he wanted to get surreal. Here, realism fades into surrealism, then into outright foolishness. Morbidly paced foolishness.
December 14, 2014
Paul Tatara
CNN.com
TOP CRITIC
Cruise in particular lays himself open in that fiercely committed way that he tries everything as an actor.
December 14, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
It’s as rich and strange and riveting as any journey he’s taken us on, yet it’s also familiar in a disquieting way.
December 13, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
John Hartl
Seattle Times
TOP CRITIC
The director’s most emotionally confronting picture.
March 18, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Eyes Wide Shut is the perfect embodiment of capitalist Christmas tendencies, wherein money talks and class supplants everything.
September 9, 2021
Jason Shawhan
Nashville Scene
Eyes Wide Shut is a beautiful film. The set design, costumes, actors, and cinematography are all beautiful. Kubrick’s camera seems to seek out beautiful things.
April 1, 2021
Sarah Brinks
Battleship Pretension
Eyes Wide Shut feels like the culmination of a career spent telling stories of every stripe; it’s at once horrifying, sexy and thrilling and it explores a world that is unlike anything that could exist outside the mind of Stanley Kubrick.
January 7, 2021
Craig Schroeder
Battleship Pretension
Kubrick’s last film has aged very well. Its depiction of honesty within a high class marriage and the consequences, is as valid as it is dangerous. [Full review in Spanish].
September 15, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
Federico Furzan
Cinelipsis
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) is legendary director Stanley Kubrick’s highly-anticipated, last completed film. It was titled ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ to imply self-contradictory opposites: at first being exposed or tempted, and then reflexively turning away…
September 29, 2019 | Rating: A+
Tim Dirks
Filmsite…
Plot
After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale
Trivia
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