Eyes Wide Shut

…his attention to another project, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which would be his final film, released only a few months after his death. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (“Dream Story”), it became yet another controversial entry in Kubrick’s oeuvre. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, then married to each…

… died before the release of Eyes Wide Shut (1999), his first film since Full Metal Jacket (1987). Two decades passed between Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), but he became more prolific after the turn of the 21st century, directing The New World (2005),…

…film of director Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), an examination of marital fidelity that drew mixed reviews. That year Cruise also earned acclaim as a misogynistic self-help guru in Magnolia, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.

…also saw the release of Eyes Wide Shut, which was an adaptation of another Schnitzler work and was the final film by director Stanley Kubrick. Although billed as a steamy romance featuring real-life couple Kidman and Cruise, it bowed to mixed reviews and disappointing box-office numbers.

>Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Michael Clayton (2007). He also acted in a number of TV shows, including Frasier, Mad About You, Will & Grace, and The Sopranos.