The lurid, excessive and semi-vulgar film for its ime was a major box-office flop, but has since become an indelible reminder of its time period - and the desperation of an American domestic housewife following the war who had everything (a fine house and pleasant husband), but felt constrained and wanted so much more.One of the top-grossing films of its year (at almost $120 million), although originally threatened with an NC-17 rating hat would have considerably cut profits, star Sharon Stone""s career as a sex goddess was also revived in her copy-cat Hitchcockian murder-mystery role, similar toVertigo (1958), as an icy,femme fataleblonde - a suspected ice-pick murderess whose novel was titledLove Hurts.As the film began, Bilbo was celebrating his "eleventy-first" (111th) birthday.He bequeathed all his possessions (including the ring) to his nephew, adopted heir Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), while he told Frodo he was leaving to stay in Rivendell.Nick bets on pool shots and makes an additional $100 bet - for his favored Pittsburgh Steelers team (playing the Eagles) while hey""re watching a pro football game on television.