The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Hollywood's most bankable couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social circle; however, a certain amount of decadence crosses their paths on occasion, and a visit to a formal-dress party leads them into sexual temptation when William is drafted into helping a beautiful girl who has overdosed on drugs while Alice is charmed by a man bent on seduction. While neither is a stranger to sexual experimentation, William and Alice have preferred not to confront each other's adulterous impulses; however, once the issue has been brought into the open, it begins a dangerous season of erotic gamesmanship for both partners. What didn't make the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut may have been as fascinating as what finally appeared on screen: Harvey Keitel was replaced almost immediately by Sydney Pollack, while Jennifer Jason Leigh was replaced by Marie Richardson after she had shot all her scenes and left town.