Stanley Kubrick's last film isn't a seamless masterpiece on the order of 2001 or DR. STRANGELOVE, but it's no old man's folly either. Adapted from Arthur Schitzler's haunting, 1926 novella
Traumnovelle, it's updated to modern New York but otherwise
extremely faithful until it takes an ill-advised turn into paranoid thriller territory. Dr. Bill Harford and his wife Alice (Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman), happily married for nine years, attend a Christmas party and wind up flirting with other guests. Their unconsummated brushes with infidelity lead
to a marijuana-fueled fight at home, during which Alice confesses a sexual fantasy that profoundly unsettles her husba...
Released:
1999
Rated:
R
Length:
160 mins