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Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedgia
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Eyes Wide Shut |
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In Stanley Kubrick's Final Masterpiece, Tom Cruise plays a smug doctor who takes his wife for granted until one night when she reveals that she has had sexual thoughts about other men and this leads him to roam the sexually obsessed streets of New York looking for answerers and revenge on his wife. When he tells her everything he did in the end, she forgives him and they start anew. This is a very hopefull film for struggling married couples.
--Michael O'Donovan, Resident Scholar
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Dr. William Hartford(Tom Cruise)one night is told by his wife Alice(Nicole Kidman)that she once had a fantasy about another man fairly recently, and was willing to give up everything she had for one night with him. Bill in grief falls away for a 48 hour period into a world of sex and violence he cannot even begin to comprehend.
--Will Dame, Resident Scholar
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An intensse, dreamlike look into the world of trust and confidence in a relationship. Shows that, oftentimes, a secret is not a bad thing to keep.
--Jason Jones, Resident Scholar
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A happily married man (Tom Crusie) is pushed over the edge by his loving wife (Nicole Kidman), who confessed to having sexual fantasies about another man. Fantasies so strong, that she admits to putting the marriage at risk to make the come true. This sets him off on an increasingly strange sexual odyssey to search for the feelings that can make him feel the same way.
--Matt S, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Eyes Wide Shut |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
- rekindling lost love/marriage
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Wife
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- learns to be more sensitive
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- main character serviced by a prostitute
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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