Vanilla Sky
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Actor: Johnny Galecki, Kurt Russell, Noah Taylor, Tilda Swinton, Timothy SpallComposer: Nancy Wilson
Composer: Ajita Wilson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Vanilla Sky
Movie Review: A Beautiful Film - But Not For Every Taste
Summary: 5 Stars
Vanilla Sky has been called superficial, vain, over-produced and arrogant, and it is all of those things, I won't deny it. You have to accept and even appreciate these flaws if you're going to enjoy what this film has to offer.
At its core, the film is a classic tale of redemption with some sci-fi elements tossed in to add to the flavor. At times it is shocking and violent, at others schmaltzy or vulgar, and the characters can come off as vapid urbanites who have never even had to think about working a normal job. Still, the film manages to connect emotionally on many levels despite the fact that it's hard to identify with the characters.
Perhaps the film could have accomplished its task without coming off as pretentious, but somehow I doubt it. This is one of my favorite films, and one I've shared with many friends. From experience I know you'll either get bored of the movie after 10 minutes or you'll be hooked. In other words: Try this one before you buy!
Summary of Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with ?ber-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Pen?lope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amen?bar'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 MeadeDrama DVD Video
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