Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the director’s decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual. Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled.

Film Info

  • United Kingdom, United States
  • 1999
  • 159 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1290

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration of the international version of the film, supervised and approved by director of photography Larry Smith, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
  • New interviews with Smith, set decorator and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and archivist Georgina Orgill
  • Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s wife
  • Never Just a Dream (2019), featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s personal assistant
  • Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
  • Kubrick Remembered (2014), featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
  • Kubrick’s 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of America’s D. W. Griffith Award
  • Press conference from 1999, featuring Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
  • Teaser, trailer, and promos
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack

    New cover based on an original poster by Katharina Kubrick and Christiane Kubrick

Purchase Options

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration of the international version of the film, supervised and approved by director of photography Larry Smith, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
  • New interviews with Smith, set decorator and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and archivist Georgina Orgill
  • Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick’s wife
  • Never Just a Dream (2019), featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s personal assistant
  • Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
  • Kubrick Remembered (2014), featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
  • Kubrick’s 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of America’s D. W. Griffith Award
  • Press conference from 1999, featuring Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
  • Teaser, trailer, and promos
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack

    New cover based on an original poster by Katharina Kubrick and Christiane Kubrick
Eyes Wide Shut
Cast
Tom Cruise
Dr. Bill Harford
Nicole Kidman
Alice Harford
Sydney Pollack
Victor Ziegler
Todd Field
Nick Nightingale
Marie Richardson
Marion
Thomas Gibson
Carl
Julienne Davis
Mandy
Vinessa Shaw
Domino
Rade Sherbedgia
Milich
Credits
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Produced by
Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by
Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay by
Frederic Raphael
Inspired by Traumnovelle by
Arthur Schnitzler
Executive producer
Jan Harlan
Lighting cameraman
Larry Smith
Production designer
Les Tomkins
Production designer
Roy Walker
Editor
Nigel Galt

Current

Eyes Wide Shut: A Sword in the Bed
Eyes Wide Shut: A Sword in the Bed

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle, Stanley Kubrick’s final film is a deeply personal examination of the fragility of marriage and the destructive power of sexual fantasy.

By Megan Abbott