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Vanilla Sky

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

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792180104
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792180100
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 9219
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001



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Product Description:
Young handsome and wealthy publishing tycoon david aames can have anything his heart desires. Still davids 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 davids world out of control. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Tom Cruise Cameron Diaz Run time: 136 minutes Rating: R Director: Cameron Crowe

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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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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Beautiful Film - But Not For Every Taste
Vanilla Sky has been called superficial, vain, over-produced and arrogant, and it is all of those ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Descartes for the masses: a frozen dream
I suppose what I dislike about this movie is the misuse of cryonics
technology as an asleep ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Sci-Fi Twist
Whoops, I gave it away, but what the hey. Cameron Crowe's fifth film is brilliantly orchestrated. I ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Hate/Love it? I'm on the hater's boat!
All the reviewers who said that this is a movie you love or hate,and I really hated it. It was long, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of my favorites
Original, fun, with a sad unconventional ending. A definite love it or hate it movie. Makes you appreciate ... Read More

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