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Eyes Wide Shut is difficult to summarize, but it's organization is practically identical to Schnitzler's novel (Kubrick's insistence on an "inspired by" credit for Schnitzler seems not only wrong, but ego-driven). Cruise and Kidman play Bill and Alice Harford, a couple that seemingly have it all--looks, boatloads of money, great sex, an adorable child and a London-esque apartment in New York City. When they attend an ostentatious Christmas ball thrown by a wealthy friend (Sydney Pollack), Alice gets plastered and finds herself dancing with a skeezy Hungarian player; he whispers cheesy pick-up lines...
...could see, and somehow not quite see, the movie in this story of a fashionable yet conscientious physician and his wife whose nine-year marriage has produced an adored child, genuine mutual affection and a growing sexual restlessness. Everything depended on its realization. Cruise's character, Dr. William Harford, is in some ways a dim and passive fellow, self-victimized and hard to care for. His wife Alice would have been easy to play either ditsy or bitchy. But there is in Cruise a kind of passionate watchfulness and in Kidman a desperate and touching candor, and they keep drawing...
CONNIE DEJULIIS (D) District 2 (Baltimore and Harford counties...
...story are meant to understand and love unconditionally. The choice of poets supposedly echoes the American sentiments of the age, with Lord Byron representing Melody's Romantic longing for Old World ways, and Thoreau's Yankee desire for freedom from internal oppression assigned to Sara's lover Mr. Harford, a character we never...
...Bears. Chris Harford, Subterraneans and Chaos from Order on Thursday, Oct. 1. Disappear Fear, Laurie Geltman and Sara Laughs on Friday, Oct. 2. Reverend Horton Heat, Super Suckers and Seventh House on Saturday, Oct. 3. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. Call 492-0082 for more information...