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Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky

starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee
directed by: Cameron Crowe

Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792180104
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792180100
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 097363393641
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 136 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001

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Product Description:
David Aames has always taken his good fortune for granted until he is in a car accident caused by his suicidal ex-girlfriend.

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Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with über-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penélope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar'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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