A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
- Awards
- 12 wins & 30 nominations
Peter Hans Benson
- Bandleader
- (as Peter Benson)
Sky du Mont
- Sandor Szavost
- (as Sky Dumont)
Louise Taylor-Smith
- Gayle
- (as Louise Taylor)
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Director's Trademarks: A Guide to Stanley Kubrick's Films
Director's Trademarks: A Guide to Stanley Kubrick's Films
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Did you know
- TriviaTom Cruise and Nicole Kidman signed open-ended contracts. They agreed to work on this project until Stanley Kubrick released them from it, however long that turned out to be.
- GoofsBill Harford arrives at Rainbow Fashions by taxi from the Sonata Cafe, and, as he talks to Milich, Gillespie's Diner can be been seen across the other side of the street. Earlier in the story, it was seen that Gillespie's is next door to the Sonata Cafe; there's no way he would have taken a taxi just to cross the street.
- Quotes
Victor Ziegler: Listen, Bill. Nobody killed anybody. Someone died. It happens all the time. Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. But you know that, don't you?
- Crazy creditsThe end credits are a slideshow. This is unusual for a film of its time, when many employed rolling end credits.
- Alternate versionsThe Europeans version is completely uncensored. The orgy scene was partially censored in the American release to avoid an "NC-17" rating. Computer generated people were placed in front of the sexually explicit action to obscure it from view.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hai-Kubrick (1999)
- SoundtracksMusica Ricercata II: Mesto, Rigido e Cerimonale
(1950)
Performed by Dominic Harlan, piano
Written by György Ligeti
Published by Schott Musik International GmbH & Co. KG
Featured review
Hypnotic and misunderstood
Initially was at a loss for words with this one. I can't necessarily explain the feelings this film brings out, but I can say they feel real personal and there's just something so off yet so painfully real about (most of) this movie and it is just really undervalued in Kubrick's filmography, I think. Besides being one of my favorite looking movies ever, the midpoint turn is one of the scariest heading down rabbit hole reveals I've really encountered in a film and it just disturbed me for the entire time (you know the point) and after as it continued provocatively building to the disturbing and bizarrely cathartic ending, which haunts me as the final scene in a Kubrick film. It's perfect in it's imperfectness and I get an insane level of both joy and sadness watching this movie.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- EWS
- Filming locations
- Elveden Hall, Elveden, Suffolk, England, UK(interiors: Long Island Mansion "Somerton" where orgy takes place)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $65,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,691,208
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $21,706,163
- Jul 18, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $162,283,210
- Runtime2 hours 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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