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2 videodiscs (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
ISBN/ISSN
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Criterion collection #1290
NOTES
Based on the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler
Disc 1: Main feature -- Disc 2: Special features
"After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. In New York City, he discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head."--Rottentomatoes.com, December 16, 2025
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Collector's booklet includes an essay by author Megan Abbot: "A sword in the bed"; a 1999 interview with filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack "What Stanley wanted": an interview with Sydney Pollack by Michael Henry; cast and credits; and notes on the remaster
Special features: New interviews with director of photography Larry Smith, set decorator and second-unit director Lisa Leone, archivist Georgina Orgill; archival interview with Christiane Kubrick (director Stanley Kubrick's wife); "Never just a dream (2019)," featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan, Katharina Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick's daugher), and Anthony Frewin (Kubrick's personal assistant; "Lost Kubrick: The unfinished films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)"; "Kubrick remembered (2014)," featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg; Kubrick's 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of America's D.W. Griffith Award; press conference from 1999, featuring Jan Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; teaser, trailer, and promos
Accompanying material may vary
Editor, Nigel Galt ; director of photography, Larry Smith ; original music, Jocelyn Pook
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Cumming, Sky Dumont, Fay Masterson, Leelee Sobieski, Thomas Gibson, Madison Eginton
MPA rating: R
Blu-ray; 1080p high definition; widescreen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player
English dialogue
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Additional Credits
CREDITS
Kubrick, Stanley, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Raphael, Frederic, 1931- screenwriter.
Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008, actor.
Richardson, Marie, 1959- actor.
Šerbedžija, Rade, 1946- actor.
Galt, Nigel, editor of moving image work.
Smith, Larry (Cinematographer), cinematographer.
Pook, Jocelyn, composer (work)
Abbott, Megan, 1971- writer of accompanying material.
Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931. Motion picture adaptation of (work): Traumnovelle