Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick's posthumous erotic odyssey Eyes Wide Shut debuts in theaters on this date in 1999.


After laboring for years on the sex-driven Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman thriller Eyes Wide Shut, master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick never lived to see the flesh-intensive fruits if his labors light up movie screens. He died on March 7, 1999.

The movie opened to mixed reviews for its unhurried pacing and occasionally meandering plot, which chronicles Cruise spelunking into the sexual underbelly of New York City over the course of a single night away from home.

Still, there is no debating the power of Nicole in the nude, not to mention standout nakedness from Julienne Davis and, as a mysterious figure who leads our hero into an orgy loaded with uncredited females in the buff, Abigail Good.

Eyes Wide Shut provided a sexy swan song for Kubrick, and it was well in keeping with his previous carnal canon, which includes A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining.