Vanilla Sky | 
| Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  789 reviews
Sales Rank: 5093
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: D339364D
ISBN: 0792180100
UPC: 097363393641
EAN: 9780792180104
ASIN: B00005JKMZ
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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YOUNG, HANDSOME AND WEALTHY, PUBLISHING TYCOON DAVID AAMES CAN HAVE ANYTHING HIS HEART DESIRES. STILL, DAVID'S CHARMED LIFE SEEMS IMCOMPLETE. ONE NIGHT, DAVID MEETS THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS & BELIEVES HE MAY HAVE FOUND THE MISSING PIECE. BUT AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN EX-JEALOUS LOVER SENDS DAVID'S WORLD OUT OF CONTROL.
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Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with ueber-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penelope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar's 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes, the film follows David Aames (Cruise) as he falls from his graceful Manhattan perch of inordinate wealth, good looks, and newfound love with Sofia (Cruz) because of severe facial disfigurement in a car accident caused by a suicidal ex-lover (Diaz). What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty. A series of plot twists follows as waking life, technological advances, and nightmares flip-flop to dizzying effect and David ultimately comes face to face with his own mortality. Despite a final conceit to some vague morality, the appeal of the film is the wonderfully callous message conveyed by the rest of it (money and physical beauty equal happiness) through an unabashed vanity perfectly embodied by Cruise and Cruz. A delicious, decadent treat. --Fionn Meade
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 Abre los Ojos July 4, 2009
J. White (Georgia)
Clearly, this movie isn't for everyone. As many people love it as hate it. But I think it's amazing. It's a great love story that seems to defy genre classification. To me it's more than a rent and I'm glad to own it, but I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to rent it first; you may hate it.
It's an amazing movie!! And maybe just what you've always hoped to see. July 3, 2009
Dr.Graffin (Twin Cities, MN)
I've loved Vanilla Sky since the first time I saw it. I instantly fell in love with it, so I'm definitely part of the "love it" camp. I'm not going to go too much into the details of the plot in this review as 788 people have said probably all that could be. I must caution potential viewers to please NOT allow your opinion of Tom Cruise to affect your opinion of this movie. He plays this role quite well and convincingly, as the David Ames character he plays might not be so different from the real Tom Cruise. Life immitating art, art immitating life...blah, blah, blah..
In short, it's a great film on many levels. It's a thriller, it's a drama, it makes you think. The ending is sad yet hopeful. As everyone has said, you'll probably either love and appreciate this film, or find it nothing but senseless junk. I definitely think this movie is a classic, that may be appreciated in a greater sense somewhere down the line. Right now, Tom Cruise's personal life overshadows how great this moview actually is.
A really weird film June 29, 2009
Mrs. Pamela L. Ledet
Vanilla Sky
A really nice romp into the world of the mind. It gives you alot to think about when it's over.One of Tom Cruise's best performances not to mention Ms'Cruz's beauty.They are electric on screen together.
 Chocolate Rain June 20, 2009
Amaranth (Northern California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Vanilla Sky" is a quirky sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise, in his saner, handsomer days. Cruise stars as a gazillionaire torn between his psycho ex-girlfriend (Cameron Diaz) and the beautiful Sofia (Cruise's then-girlfriend, Penelope Cruz) Sofia also happens to be the girlfriend of his writer friend (Jason Lee) Diaz ends up driving Cruise crazy--literally. She dies in the crash;he ends up disfigured (he looks like he was in a bad brawl,not the Elephant Man) He gets locked up, with psychotherapist Kurt Russell. In the meantime,he finds out about cryonics from the icily beautiful Tilda Swinton (now the White Witch in the Disney Narnia movies)
"Vanilla Sky" brings up interesting issues of reality, fantasy, whether it was all a dream. Former Rolling Stone intern Cameron Crowe brings in the Beach Boys, Bjork, and Bob Dylan--as if it were all a pop culture in-joke. The head of Life Extension looks eerily like the diminutive leader of Scientology,with his promises of immortality, eternal youth, and lucid dreaming.
"Vanilla Sky" is an interesting bad movie. Cruise is quite credible as the shallow playboy. Russell is convincing as a therapist,being quite paternal with his nerd glasses (this same Russell was the Marine in "Stargate") "Vanilla Sky" will open your eyes!
 Original concept with meaningful personal implications. April 21, 2009
R. Robinson (N.C. by way of TX)
Although this movie seems to draw much debate and controversy whether a person "liked" it or not. I thought it a good movie; memorable in fact. If you still haven't watched it, do so. Then you will know why my review is so short.
Basically Cruise in this one is trying to find out what bleep is going on, and you are just as helpless as he is. Consider it a part mystery, part psycho-drama. The ending will leave you wondering what you would choose...
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