VANILLA SKY
Year: 2001
USA: Paramount Picture
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Cameron Diaz, Johnny Galecki, Jean Carol, Tilda Swinton, Alicia Witt, Timothy Spall, W Earl Brown, Jennifer Aspen, Armand Schultz, Carolyn Byrne, Patrick McMullen, Jennifer Gimenez, Paul Haggar, Ken Leung, Tara Lipinski, Ivana Milicevic, Jonathan Sanger, Andrei Sterling, Mark Bramhall, Marty Collins, Alice Crowe, Jane Pratt, Conan O'Brien, Nicole Taylor Hart, Zachary Lee, Ryan Keating, Mel Thompson, David Lewison, Robertson Dean, John Fedevich, Shalom Harlow, Todd Harrison, Oona Hart, Tim Hopper, Michael Kehoe, Mark Kozelek, Scotch Ellis Loring, Delaina Mitchell, Jan Munroe, Pauley Perrette, Mark Pinter, Ray Proscia, Stacey Sher, Robin Van Sharner, Cameron Watson, Jhaemi Willens, Randy Woodside
Director: Cameron Crowe
Country: USA
USA: 145 mins
UK: 136 mins
USA Rated: R for sexuality and strong language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, moderate horror and sexual references
USA Release Date: 14 December 2001
UK Release Date: 25 January 2002
Synopsis
"I once loved a woman, a child I'm told. I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul." -- Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
"When you were young and on your own, how did it feel to be alone? I was always thinking of games that I was playing, trying to make the best of my time. But only love can break your heart. Try to be sure right from the start. Yes, only love can break your heart. What if your world should fall apart?" -- Neil Young, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Snowboarding through life, David Aames (Tom Cruise) appears to lead a charmed life. Handsome, wealthy and charismatic, the young New York City publishing executive's freewheeling existence is enchanting, yet he seems to be missing something. Like the pointillism of an Impressionist landscape, a life can appear to be entirely different when examined close up.
In one night David meets a girl of his dreams and loses her by making a small mistake. Thrust unexpectedly onto a roller-coaster ride of romance, comedy, suspicion, love, sex and dreams, David finds himself on a mind-bending search for his soul and discovers the precious, ephemeral nature of true love.
Paramount Pictures presents VANILLA SKY, A Cruise/Wagner - Vinyl Films Production. A Cameron Crowe Film. Directed by Cameron Crowe, VANILLA SKY is produced by Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner and Cameron Crowe, from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based upon the film "Abre Los Ojos" written by Alejandro Amenabar and Mateo Gil.