This week, we examine the ample evidence for why you shouldn’t try to save your marriage with a movie. Chance and Noah check in with “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) as the infamous Stanley Kubrick-directed interrogation of Tom Cruise and his marriage to Nicole Kidman turns 20.

We also look back at the lovechild of “Liz” Taylor and “Dick” Burton, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966) and the honeymoon-cum-couples therapy “By The Sea” (2015), which self-analyzes Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s sinking ship of a union.

New York Magazine’s Lila Shapiro joins the show (26-minute mark) to discuss seeing “Eyes Wide Shut” 100 times and how the movie resonates with Jeffrey Epstein’s horrifying crimes.

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