Search - Eyes Wide Shut [Fullscreen] on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 06/12/2001 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Dual Layered,Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 39 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 9 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Erotic Drama, Marriage Drama, Paranoid Thriller See Also: Eyes Wide Shut [Fullscreen], Eyes Wide Shut [Blu-ray], Eyes Wide Shut [Special Edition], Eyes Wide Shut [HD DVD], Eyes Wide Shut, Eyes Wide Shut [Special Edition], Eyes Wide Shut [Blu-ray], Eyes Wide Shut [HD DVD]

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social circle; however, a certain amount of decadence crosses their paths on occasion, and a visit to a formal-dress party leads them into sexual temptation when William is drafted into helping a beautiful girl who has overdosed on drugs while Alice is charmed by a man bent on seduction. While neither William and Alice act on their adulterous impulses, once the issue has been brought into the open, it begins a dangerous season of erotic gamesmanship for the couple, with William in particular openly confronting his desire for new sexual experiences. What didn't make the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut may have been as fascinating as what finally appeared on screen: Harvey Keitel was replaced almost immediately by Sydney Pollack, while Jennifer Jason Leigh was replaced by Marie Richardson after she had shot all her scenes and left town. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Tom Cruise - William Harford
Nicole Kidman - Alice Harford
Sydney Pollack - Victor Ziegler
Marie Richardson - Marion
Rade Serbedzija - Milich
Todd Field - Nick Nightingale
Vinessa Shaw - Domino

Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to reproduce the original theatrical aspect ratio. The closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1. English and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include interviews with lead actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, as well as longtime Kubrick acquaintance Steven Spielberg. Trailers, television advertisements, and production notes round out this package from Warner Bros. that is the best version of the film available on DVD (until a widescreen transfer is made available). ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide