<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $65 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $162.1 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick . Based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), the story is transferred from early 20th century Vienna to 1990s New York City . The film follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier . He embarks on a night - long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society . </P> <P> Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations . The project was only revived in the 1990s, when Kubrick hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation . The film, which was mostly shot in the United Kingdom, apart from some exterior establishing shots, includes a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes made at Pinewood Studios . The film's production, at 400 days, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot . </P>

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