Vanilla sky / Paramount Pictures presents ; a Cruise/Wagner-Vinyl Films production in association with Sogecine, Summit Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment ; a Cameron Crowe film ; written for the screen and directed by Cameron Crowe ; produced by Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Cameron Crowe.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 33936 | Paramount59191180000 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Widescreen version (16:9)Description: 1 videodisc (135 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0792180100
- 9780792180104
- 0792180119
- 9780792180111
- 0792181506
- 9780792181507
- Vanilla sky (Motion picture). French & English.
- Remake of (work): Abre los ojos (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, John Toll ; editors, Joe Hutshing, Mark Livolsi ; music, Nancy Wilson ; costume designer, Betsy Heimann ; production designer, Catherine Hardwicke.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes (1997), this thriller from director Cameron Crowe bears one of several discarded titles for his previous, Oscar-winning film Almost Famous (2000). Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizing playboy who finds romantic redemption when he falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend Sofia (Penelope Cruz, reprising her role from the original film). Before that relationship can begin, however, David is coaxed into a car driven by an ex-lover, Julie (Cameron Diaz), who turns out to be suicidal. Driving her car off a bridge, Julie kills herself and horribly disfigures David. Reconstructive surgery and the loving support of Sofia seem to reverse David's luck, but eerie incidents are soon making him question the reality of his existence and his control over his life, even while he is suspected of complicity in Julie's death. Vanilla Sky (2001) bears the expected Crowe trademark of an obsession with recent pop culture and particularly rock music, a more important element of the remake than the original film. That project's writer/director, Alejandro Amenabar, crafted his own supernatural hit the same year with The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Cruise. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby surround.
English or dubbed French dialogue, with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Cameron Diaz.
Director of photography, John Toll ; editors, Joe Hutshing, Mark Livolsi ; music, Nancy Wilson ; costume designer, Betsy Heimann ; production designer, Catherine Hardwicke.
Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Based on the film "Abre los ojos" by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil.
MPAA rating: R; for sexuality and strong language.
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. David tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, David's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies in his dreams.
Special features: Scene selection; commentary by director Cameron Crowe and composer Nancy Wilson, featuring a conversation with Tom Cruise; "Prelude to a dream" a documentary introduction to the film (7 min.); "Hitting it hard" a behind-the-scenes view of the film's worldwide press tour (10 min.); interview with Paul McCartney who wrote the title song (2 min.); music video "Africa Shox" by Leftfield/Afrika Bambaataa (4 min.); international theatrical trailer (3 min.); never-before-seen teaser trailer (2 min.); photo gallery with audio introduction by photographer Neal Preston (3 min.).