Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Eyes Wide Shut
汤姆克鲁斯 和 妮可基德曼,《大开眼戒》
Cruise and Kidman met on the set of 1990's Days of Thunder, married later that year, and collaborated again in 1992's Far and Away -- but by the time they made their third movie together, Cruise wasn't the only superstar in the family. The real-life spouses' casting in the dark, heavily sexualized Eyes Wide Shut made headlines and subjected the film to intense tabloid scrutiny even before director Stanley Kubrick died, and their notoriety helped propel it to more than $160 million at the box office. A number of critics were left cold by Shut's glacial pace, but most scribes echoed the sentiments of Variety's Todd McCarthy, who called it "A riveting, thematically probing, richly atmospheric and just occasionally troublesome work, a deeply inquisitive consideration of the extent of trust and mutual knowledge possible between a man and a woman."
克鲁斯和基德曼相遇在1990年的电影《雷霆壮志》中相识,并随后在当年结婚,又在1992年的《大地雄心》再度合作。但当他们第三度合作时,克鲁斯已经不是这个家庭里的唯一超级巨星。这对真实生活中的配偶在那部阴暗、充斥着大量性感场景的电影《大开眼戒》中的演绎,成为了新闻的头条,甚至在导演斯坦利库布里克去世之前本片还在紧张地审议。这些负面消息帮助推动了160,000,000美元的票房收益。很多批评家称被该片的缓慢进度弄得昏昏欲睡,但更多的人与《综艺》杂志的托德麦卡锡所见略同。麦卡锡把《大开眼戒》称作是“一部扣人心弦的,有深度的,有浓郁氛围的,偶尔有点罗嗦的作品,一次关于信任和男女之间的相互理解是否存在的深入而好奇的思考。