Vanilla Sky

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Vanilla Sky (2001)
Timing: 2:16 (136 min)
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Budget
$68 000 000
Box office
$203 388 341
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Producer
Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Cameron Crowe, Patrick Wachsberger, Fernando Bovaira, Jonathan Sanger, Bill Block, Danny Bramson
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Artist
Catherine Hardwicke, Andrew Menzies
Audition
Gail Levin
Editing
Joe Hutshing, Mark Livolsi
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Short description

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

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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