Vanilla Sky
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Short description
David Aames is a wealthy New York publishing heir who has everything he wants and takes most of it for granted. When a friend introduces him to Sofia, he falls for her quickly, and for a moment his life seems to be changing for the better. His former lover Julie reacts badly to being cast aside, and a drive with her ends in a crash that kills her and leaves David's face severely disfigured. He withdraws behind a mask, and the people around him begin to behave strangely.
Cameron Crowe directed and wrote the screenplay, producing with Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner and their company. It followed Almost Famous in Crowe's filmography and was his fifth feature. The cast includes Tom Cruise as David, Penélope Cruz as Sofia, Cameron Diaz as Julie, Kurt Russell as Curtis McCabe, Jason Lee as Brian Shelby and Noah Taylor as Edmund Ventura, among a large credited company. Crowe's version adapts a Spanish film, and the production was a Spanish-American co-production.
Released in December 2001, the film cost about 68 million dollars and took roughly 203 million worldwide, so it returned a profit. On IMDb it holds 6.9 from around 307,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 from some 4,851 votes. A critics' rating of 6 from 173 reviews sits close to those audience scores, suggesting a mixed but not dismissive reception.
What's left behind the scenes
- Tom Cruise drives a 1967 Ford Mustang and a Ferrari 250 GTO.
- Steven Spielberg appears at David's birthday. During the filming of "Vanilla Sky," Spielberg and Tom Cruise were preparing to collaborate on "Minority Report" (2002).
- The director claims that the film contains 428 references to various cultural phenomena (books, films, events).
- Footage from Robert Mulligan's "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) appears briefly in the film. It's one of Cameron Crowe's favorite movies.
- Kurt Russell agreed to star in the film without even reading the script.
- In the film, Tom Cruise wears an IWC Mark XV watch.
- Several paintings by Ralph Bakshi hang in David's room.
- Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise invited the legendary director Billy Wilder to make a cameo appearance, but he declined.
- A poster for François Truffaut's 1962 film "Jules and Jim" hangs in David's bedroom. In the finale, Truffaut's heroine crashes a car with her lover off a bridge, which directly references the plot of "Vanilla Sky".
- It is a remake of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 film "Open Your Eyes".
- David Aames' birthday is September 22, 1968.
- The studio demanded that Cameron Crowe remove scenes depicting the World Trade Center towers destroyed on September 11th. Crowe refused.
- Cameron Diaz's car, in which the characters crash, is a 1970 Buick Skylark.
- The name of Dr. McKay, the character played by Kurt Russell, came from Nancy Wilson's solo album “Life in a Guitar Shop” – Nancy Wilson being the wife of Cameron Crowe.
- Michael Keaton, Harrison Ford, and Alec Baldwin were all considered for the role of Dr. McKay.
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