Which novella is the source material for the film in which Nicole Kidman appeared alongside Cruise in 1999?
Nicole Kidman filmography Australian actress Nicole Kidman made her film debut in the drama remake "Bush Christmas" in 1983. Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries "Vietnam", for which she received the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series award from the Australian Film Institute. Kidman's breakthrough role was in the 1989 thriller "Dead Calm"; her performance as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a psychopathic murderer earned critical acclaim and international recognition. She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film "Days of Thunder" (1990). Her role as a homicidal weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime comedy-drama "To Die For" garnered Kidman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 1996. She worked with Cruise again on Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999.
Passage du milieu Passage du milieu (Middle Passage) is a 1999 docudrama directed by Guy Deslauriers about the trans-Atlantic voyage of black slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean, a part of the triangular slave trade route called the Middle Passage. It portrays the transportation of slaves from Senegal to the sugar plantations of Martinique and the miserable and often fatal conditions on board the slave ship. The script is by Patrick Chamoiseau based on a scenario by Claude Chonville. It was a Martinique-Senegal-France co-production and was screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.