Eyes Wide Shut

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson

Year: 1999 Running Time: 159 mins Rating:

Tom Cruise plays the New York doctor who embarks on a harrowing all-night sexual odyssey after his art curator wife (Nicole Kidman) admits that she came close to cheating on him. A series of unfulfilling encounters with the daughter of a dead patient and a hooker follow, before his welcome into a secret sexual party could mean he loses all those he holds dear. A smorgasbord of heaving human flesh and sexual conundrums from veteran director Stanely Kubrick.

Review

Wealthy doctor Tom Cruise and bored wife Nicole Kidman would appear to be the perfect couple.

Once at a society party, however, he flirts happily with girls who throw themselves at him, while she gets drunk in minutes and is whirled round the dance floor by a Hungarian gigolo.

Back home, smoking pot, they are soon at each other's throats, she taunting him about the affair she could have had with a naval officer.

Haunted by this, Cruise, after dallying with a prostitute, finds himself, via a friend, masked and caped at an occult-style orgy in a vast country mansion. A nightmare scenario follows...