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Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe. It is an English-language adaptation of Alejandro Amenábar s 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes, which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the original film.

The film has been described as an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp . It stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, with Jason Lee and Kurt Russell in supporting roles. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, as well as Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award nominations for Diaz s performance.

In recent years the film has gained a cult following.

Plot

David Aames, the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe.

In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father s trusted associates while living as a playboy in Manhattan. He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party. David and Sofia spend the night together at Sofia s apartment and fall in love, unaware that David s current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride, and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. She purposely crashes the car, killing herself and disfiguring David.

Doctors cannot repair David s face using plastic surgery, forcing him to wear a prosthetic mask, but the mental and physical scarring from the accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed. Brian convinces David to join him and Sofia at a club. They leave him to wallow in the street outside the club after he becomes drunk and insults them.

The next morning, Sofia returns and apologizes to David. She takes him home, the two form a relationship and he slowly begins to recover. Doctors find a way to repair David s face despite their prior prognosis. Later, he is plagued by bizarre experiences, such as brief flashbacks of his disfigurement and an encounter with a mysterious man at a bar who informs him that David is omnipotent, demonstrated by the entire bar falling silent at David s command. One day, while at Sofia s, David awakens to find himself in bed with Julie, whose face has replaced Sofia s in their photographs. In shock, he suffocates Julie. David is arrested and imprisoned and his facial disfigurement is mysteriously restored.

Dr. McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name Life Extension . Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. Rebecca, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses cryonic suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until a cure can be found, keeping them in a lucid dream state to otherwise exercise their mind. David realizes that he is in cryonic suspension and the world he inhabits is his own lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for tech support , and rushes for the building s lobby, which is suddenly empty. An elevator opens, revealing the strange man from the bar.

As the elevator climbs to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man explains that he is Tech Support and that David has been in suspension for 150 years. Unable to face the twin traumas of the loss of his love, Sofia, and his facial injuries, he had opted for Life Extension to be woken when technology could repair his face, and left the publishing company in the hands of his father s associates. As part of the program, David had chosen to experience a lucid dream, in which his life would resume the morning after Sofia left him. However, a glitch in the software had caused other elements of his subconscious to distort his dream.

They emerge on the rooftop, high above the clouds. Tech Support tells David that while they have corrected the flaw, he now has a choice of either being returned to the dream or being restored to life, requiring a literal leap of faith off the roof that will wake him from his sleep. David chooses the latter, despite McCabe warning him against it. Before jumping, David envisions Brian and Sofia to say his goodbyes. He leaps from the edge of the building, and his life flashes before him.

David snaps awake as a female voice invites him to open his eyes.

Cast

  • Tom Cruise as David Aames
  • Penélope Cruz as Sofia Serrano
  • Cameron Diaz as Julianna Julie Gianni
  • Kurt Russell as Dr. Curtis McCabe
  • Jason Lee as Brian Shelby
  • Noah Taylor as Edmund Ventura
  • Timothy Spall as Thomas Tipp
  • Tilda Swinton as Rebecca Dearborn
  • Michael Shannon as Aaron
  • Shalom Harlow as Colleen
  • Oona Hart as Lynette
  • Ivana Miličević as Emma
  • Johnny Galecki as Peter Brown
  • Alicia Witt as Libby
  • Ken Leung as art editor
  • Conan O Brien as himself
  • Tommy Lee as frozen vintage car man
  • Laura Fraser as The Future
  • Steven Spielberg as guest at David s party (uncredited)

Production

Development

In the days after completing Almost Famous, the opportunity to keep our film-making team together was too attractive to pass up. I d always written my own original screenplays, but Open Your Eyes, with its open-ended and impressionistic themes, felt like a great song for our band to cover.

—Cameron Crowe, explaining his reason for directing Vanilla Sky.

After the American debut of Alejandro Amenábar s 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner optioned the remake rights. Hoping to entice director Cameron Crowe, who collaborated with Cruise on Jerry Maguire, Cruise invited Crowe over to his house to view the film. Cruise has stated:

I ve been offered a lot of films to buy and remake, and I never have because I felt it was too connected with the culture of that place, whatever country it was from. But this was a universal story that was still open-ended, that still felt like it needed another chapter to be told.

The title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by Claude Monet. In addition to Monet s impressionistic artwork, the film s tone was derived from the acoustic ballad By Way of Sorrow by Julie Miller and a line from an early interview of Elvis Presley in which he said, I feel lonely, even in a crowded room.

Filming

Principal photography for Vanilla Sky began in late 2000 and lasted six weeks. On November 12, 2000, shooting for the scene of the deserted Times Square in New York took place in the early hours of the day. A large section of traffic was blocked off around Times Square while the scene was shot. There was a limit on how long the city would let us lock everything up even on an early Sunday morning when much of NYC would be slow getting up, said Steadicam operator Larry McConkey. Several times we rehearsed with Steadicam and Crane including a mockup of an unmovable guardrail that we had to work the crane arm around. participated in these rehearsals as well so we shared a clear understanding of what my limitations and requirements would be.

Filming lasted for six weeks around the New York City area, which included scenes in Central Park, the Upper West Side, SoHo, and Brooklyn. One prominent location in the area was the Condé Nast Building that served as Aames Publishing and David s office. After filming finished in New York, production moved to Los Angeles, where the remaining interior shots were completed at Paramount Studios. Crowe intentionally left in shots of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks as a tribute.

Despite the film s distorted aspects of reality, the style of cinematography remains grounded for much of the film. I didn t do anything that was overtly obvious, because the story revolves around the main character not knowing whether he s in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so we want it to feel a little ambiguous, said cinematographer John Toll. We want the audience to make discoveries as s character does, rather than ahead of him. American Cinematographer magazine wrote a feature story on the lighting designer Lee Rose s work on the film.

Alternate ending

The 2015 Blu-ray release offers the option to watch the film with an alternative ending. This ending expands on the details at the end of the film. While it all leads to the same conclusion, there are additional scenes, alternative takes, and alternative dialogue.

After Rebecca describes the lucid dream, David rushes out of the room but does not immediately dash towards the elevator. He meets McCabe in the restroom who tries to convince him that this is all a hoax and a con and that his case is going to trial. David tells him that he s only in his imagination. Much like in the theatrical cut, the Beach Boys Good Vibrations plays, but this version makes it clear that David hears the music and that he chose it; meanwhile McCabe tries to convince him there is no music.

At this point, David dashes out of the restroom for the elevator the way he does in the theatrical cut, but the scene in the lobby is expanded: David shoots the police officer who is firing at him and is then surrounded by a SWAT team whom McCabe tries to talk down, but the SWAT team fires at both of them. They black out and wake up in the emptied lobby where McCabe continues to applaud what he believes is a performance while David gets into the elevator with Ventura, who tells him what happened at the end of his real life.

Once they reach the roof, McCabe reenters again and his pleas to David not to believe Ventura become more and more desperate until he collapses onto the ground in despair. David s interaction with Sofia is extended as he tells her he loves her but can t settle for a dream . He then jumps off the building, screaming I want to wake up! as images from his life flash before his eyes. He wakes up in bed and a voice tells him Open your eyes. You re going to be fine.

Music

Vanilla Sky s score was by Crowe s then wife, Nancy Wilson, who also scored Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. Wilson spent nine months on the film s music, which was done through experimentation of sound collages. We were trying to balance out the heaviness of the story with sugary pop-culture music, she said. We made sound collages of all kinds. We were channeling Brian Wilson to a large extent. I was recording things through hoses, around corners, playing guitars with cello bows, and with Carl Kaller, we tried all kinds of wacky stuff. In the murder–sex scene sound collage, Cameron even used Brian Wilson s speaking voice from a Pet Sounds mix session.

The eponymous song from the soundtrack, written and recorded by Paul McCartney, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Additional songs featured included Radiohead s song Everything in Its Right Place , and Svefn-g-englar by the Icelandic group Sigur Rós.

Interpretations

According to Cameron Crowe s commentary, there are five different interpretations of the ending:

Crowe notes that the presence of a Vanilla Sky during the morning reunion after the nightclub scene marks the first lucid dream scene, and that everything that follows is a dream.

Release

Vanilla Sky opened at #1 at the box office in the United States when it was first presented on December 14, 2001. The opening weekend took in a gross income of $25,015,518 (24.9%). The final domestic gross income was $100.61 million while the international gross income was slightly higher at $102.76m for a total worldwide gross income of $203,388,341.

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 172 critics and an average rating of 5.30/10. The site s consensus states: An ambitious mix of genres, Vanilla Sky collapses into an incoherent jumble. Cruise s performance lacks depth, and it s hard to feel sympathy for his narcissistic character. On Metacritic it has a score of 45 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade D− on a scale from A to F.

Roger Ebert s printed review of Vanilla Sky awarded the film three out of four stars:

Think it all the way through, and Cameron Crowe s Vanilla Sky is a scrupulously moral picture. It tells the story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because—well, maybe because he has a conscience. Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don t want to analyze until you ve seen it two times.

Ebert interpreted the ending as an explanation for the mechanism of our confusion , rather than a device that tells us for sure what actually happened. Film critic Richard Roeper ranked the film the second best of 2001.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls Vanilla Sky a highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory , but then says: As it leaves behind the real world and begins exploring life as a waking dream (this year s most popular theme in Hollywood movies with lofty ideas), Vanilla Sky loosens its emotional grip and becomes a disorganised and abstract if still-intriguing meditation on parallel themes. One is the quest for eternal life and eternal youth; another is guilt and the ungovernable power of the unconscious mind to undermine science s utopian discoveries. David s redemption ultimately consists of his coming to grips with his own mortality, but that redemption lacks conviction.

Salon.com called Vanilla Sky an aggressively plotted puzzle picture, which clutches many allegedly deep themes to its heaving bosom without uncovering even an onion-skin layer of insight into any of them. The review rhetorically asks: Who would have thought that Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It s a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. … But the disheartening truth is that we can see Crowe taking all the right steps, the most Crowe-like steps, as he mounts a spectacle that overshoots boldness and ambition and idiosyncrasy and heads right for arrogance and pretension—and those last two are traits I never would have thought we d have to ascribe to Crowe. Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 2/4 and wrote: The film s aim—to dazzle and inspire—is sapped by Cruise s vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian and Gareth Von Kallenbach of the publication Film Threat compared Vanilla Sky unfavorably to Open Your Eyes. Bradshaw says Open Your Eyes is certainly more distinctive than Vanilla Sky, which he describes as an extraordinarily narcissistic high-concept vanity project for producer-star Tom Cruise. Other reviewers extrapolate from the knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a version of Amenábar s film. A Village Voice reviewer characterized Vanilla Sky as hauntingly frank about being a manifestation of its star s cosmic narcissism .

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Cameron Diaz compelling as the embodiment of crazed sensuality and The New York Times reviewer said she gives a ferociously emotional performance. Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle similarly says of the film, most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal-attraction stalker is both heartbreaking and terrifying. For her performance, Diaz won multiple critics groups awards, as well as being nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Movie Award, Saturn Award, and AFI Award. Penélope Cruz s performance, however, earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (in addition to her roles in Blow and Captain Corelli s Mandolin).

Awards and nominations

Organization Year of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards 2002 Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
ALMA Awards 2002 Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Penélope Cruz Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Cameron Diaz Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics 2001 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Won
Chicago Film Critics Association 2001 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Won
Critics Choice Movie Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Won
Golden Globe Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Golden Raspberry Awards 2002 Worst Actress Penélope Cruz Nominated
Golden Reel Awards 2002 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film Michael D. Wilhoit (supervising sound editor); Kerry Dean Williams (supervising adr editor); Laura Harris Atkinson (supervising dialogue editor); Tammy Fearing, Eliza Pollack Zebert (adr editors); Mark Gordon, Vic Radulich, Clare C. Freeman, Susan Kurtz (dialogue editors) Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore Carlton Kaller Nominated
Grammy Awards 2003 Best Song Written for Visual Media Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Satellite Awards 2002 Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson (for the song I Fall Apart ) Nominated
Saturn Awards 2002 Best Science Fiction Film Vanilla Sky Nominated
Best Actor Tom Cruise Won
Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Make-Up Michèle Burke and Camille Calvet Nominated
Best Music Nancy Wilson Nominated
2016 Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release Vanilla Sky (Alternate Ending) Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2002 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Cameron Diaz Nominated

Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe. It is an English-language adaptation of Alejandro Amenábar s 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes, which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the original film.

The film has been described as an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp . It stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, with Jason Lee and Kurt Russell in supporting roles. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, as well as Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award nominations for Diaz s performance.

In recent years the film has gained a cult following.

Plot

David Aames, the owner of a large publishing company he inherited from his father, is in prison. Wearing a prosthetic mask, David tells his life story to court psychologist Dr. Curtis McCabe.

In flashbacks, David leaves the duties of the publisher to his father s trusted associates while living as a playboy in Manhattan. He is introduced to Sofia Serrano by his best friend, Brian Shelby, during a party. David and Sofia spend the night together at Sofia s apartment and fall in love, unaware that David s current lover, Julie Gianni, has followed them there. As David leaves, Julie offers him a ride, and soon reveals her jealousy of Sofia. She purposely crashes the car, killing herself and disfiguring David.

Doctors cannot repair David s face using plastic surgery, forcing him to wear a prosthetic mask, but the mental and physical scarring from the accident causes him to become withdrawn and depressed. Brian convinces David to join him and Sofia at a club. They leave him to wallow in the street outside the club after he becomes drunk and insults them.

The next morning, Sofia returns and apologizes to David. She takes him home, the two form a relationship and he slowly begins to recover. Doctors find a way to repair David s face despite their prior prognosis. Later, he is plagued by bizarre experiences, such as brief flashbacks of his disfigurement and an encounter with a mysterious man at a bar who informs him that David is omnipotent, demonstrated by the entire bar falling silent at David s command. One day, while at Sofia s, David awakens to find himself in bed with Julie, whose face has replaced Sofia s in their photographs. In shock, he suffocates Julie. David is arrested and imprisoned and his facial disfigurement is mysteriously restored.

Dr. McCabe conducts several more interviews, which serve to help David to recall the name Life Extension . Seeing a company with that name nearby, McCabe arranges to take David there under guard. Rebecca, a company representative, explains how Life Extension uses cryonic suspension to save those with terminal illnesses until a cure can be found, keeping them in a lucid dream state to otherwise exercise their mind. David realizes that he is in cryonic suspension and the world he inhabits is his own lucid dream, which has become a nightmare. He escapes McCabe and the guards while calling for tech support , and rushes for the building s lobby, which is suddenly empty. An elevator opens, revealing the strange man from the bar.

As the elevator climbs to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man explains that he is Tech Support and that David has been in suspension for 150 years. Unable to face the twin traumas of the loss of his love, Sofia, and his facial injuries, he had opted for Life Extension to be woken when technology could repair his face, and left the publishing company in the hands of his father s associates. As part of the program, David had chosen to experience a lucid dream, in which his life would resume the morning after Sofia left him. However, a glitch in the software had caused other elements of his subconscious to distort his dream.

They emerge on the rooftop, high above the clouds. Tech Support tells David that while they have corrected the flaw, he now has a choice of either being returned to the dream or being restored to life, requiring a literal leap of faith off the roof that will wake him from his sleep. David chooses the latter, despite McCabe warning him against it. Before jumping, David envisions Brian and Sofia to say his goodbyes. He leaps from the edge of the building, and his life flashes before him.

David snaps awake as a female voice invites him to open his eyes.

Cast

  • Tom Cruise as David Aames
  • Penélope Cruz as Sofia Serrano
  • Cameron Diaz as Julianna Julie Gianni
  • Kurt Russell as Dr. Curtis McCabe
  • Jason Lee as Brian Shelby
  • Noah Taylor as Edmund Ventura
  • Timothy Spall as Thomas Tipp
  • Tilda Swinton as Rebecca Dearborn
  • Michael Shannon as Aaron
  • Shalom Harlow as Colleen
  • Oona Hart as Lynette
  • Ivana Miličević as Emma
  • Johnny Galecki as Peter Brown
  • Alicia Witt as Libby
  • Ken Leung as art editor
  • Conan O Brien as himself
  • Tommy Lee as frozen vintage car man
  • Laura Fraser as The Future
  • Steven Spielberg as guest at David s party (uncredited)

Production

Development

In the days after completing Almost Famous, the opportunity to keep our film-making team together was too attractive to pass up. I d always written my own original screenplays, but Open Your Eyes, with its open-ended and impressionistic themes, felt like a great song for our band to cover.

—Cameron Crowe, explaining his reason for directing Vanilla Sky.

After the American debut of Alejandro Amenábar s 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner optioned the remake rights. Hoping to entice director Cameron Crowe, who collaborated with Cruise on Jerry Maguire, Cruise invited Crowe over to his house to view the film. Cruise has stated:

I ve been offered a lot of films to buy and remake, and I never have because I felt it was too connected with the culture of that place, whatever country it was from. But this was a universal story that was still open-ended, that still felt like it needed another chapter to be told.

The title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by Claude Monet. In addition to Monet s impressionistic artwork, the film s tone was derived from the acoustic ballad By Way of Sorrow by Julie Miller and a line from an early interview of Elvis Presley in which he said, I feel lonely, even in a crowded room.

Filming

Principal photography for Vanilla Sky began in late 2000 and lasted six weeks. On November 12, 2000, shooting for the scene of the deserted Times Square in New York took place in the early hours of the day. A large section of traffic was blocked off around Times Square while the scene was shot. There was a limit on how long the city would let us lock everything up even on an early Sunday morning when much of NYC would be slow getting up, said Steadicam operator Larry McConkey. Several times we rehearsed with Steadicam and Crane including a mockup of an unmovable guardrail that we had to work the crane arm around. participated in these rehearsals as well so we shared a clear understanding of what my limitations and requirements would be.

Filming lasted for six weeks around the New York City area, which included scenes in Central Park, the Upper West Side, SoHo, and Brooklyn. One prominent location in the area was the Condé Nast Building that served as Aames Publishing and David s office. After filming finished in New York, production moved to Los Angeles, where the remaining interior shots were completed at Paramount Studios. Crowe intentionally left in shots of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks as a tribute.

Despite the film s distorted aspects of reality, the style of cinematography remains grounded for much of the film. I didn t do anything that was overtly obvious, because the story revolves around the main character not knowing whether he s in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so we want it to feel a little ambiguous, said cinematographer John Toll. We want the audience to make discoveries as s character does, rather than ahead of him. American Cinematographer magazine wrote a feature story on the lighting designer Lee Rose s work on the film.

Alternate ending

The 2015 Blu-ray release offers the option to watch the film with an alternative ending. This ending expands on the details at the end of the film. While it all leads to the same conclusion, there are additional scenes, alternative takes, and alternative dialogue.

After Rebecca describes the lucid dream, David rushes out of the room but does not immediately dash towards the elevator. He meets McCabe in the restroom who tries to convince him that this is all a hoax and a con and that his case is going to trial. David tells him that he s only in his imagination. Much like in the theatrical cut, the Beach Boys Good Vibrations plays, but this version makes it clear that David hears the music and that he chose it; meanwhile McCabe tries to convince him there is no music.

At this point, David dashes out of the restroom for the elevator the way he does in the theatrical cut, but the scene in the lobby is expanded: David shoots the police officer who is firing at him and is then surrounded by a SWAT team whom McCabe tries to talk down, but the SWAT team fires at both of them. They black out and wake up in the emptied lobby where McCabe continues to applaud what he believes is a performance while David gets into the elevator with Ventura, who tells him what happened at the end of his real life.

Once they reach the roof, McCabe reenters again and his pleas to David not to believe Ventura become more and more desperate until he collapses onto the ground in despair. David s interaction with Sofia is extended as he tells her he loves her but can t settle for a dream . He then jumps off the building, screaming I want to wake up! as images from his life flash before his eyes. He wakes up in bed and a voice tells him Open your eyes. You re going to be fine.

Music

Vanilla Sky s score was by Crowe s then wife, Nancy Wilson, who also scored Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. Wilson spent nine months on the film s music, which was done through experimentation of sound collages. We were trying to balance out the heaviness of the story with sugary pop-culture music, she said. We made sound collages of all kinds. We were channeling Brian Wilson to a large extent. I was recording things through hoses, around corners, playing guitars with cello bows, and with Carl Kaller, we tried all kinds of wacky stuff. In the murder–sex scene sound collage, Cameron even used Brian Wilson s speaking voice from a Pet Sounds mix session.

The eponymous song from the soundtrack, written and recorded by Paul McCartney, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Additional songs featured included Radiohead s song Everything in Its Right Place , and Svefn-g-englar by the Icelandic group Sigur Rós.

Interpretations

According to Cameron Crowe s commentary, there are five different interpretations of the ending:

Crowe notes that the presence of a Vanilla Sky during the morning reunion after the nightclub scene marks the first lucid dream scene, and that everything that follows is a dream.

Release

Vanilla Sky opened at #1 at the box office in the United States when it was first presented on December 14, 2001. The opening weekend took in a gross income of $25,015,518 (24.9%). The final domestic gross income was $100.61 million while the international gross income was slightly higher at $102.76m for a total worldwide gross income of $203,388,341.

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 172 critics and an average rating of 5.30/10. The site s consensus states: An ambitious mix of genres, Vanilla Sky collapses into an incoherent jumble. Cruise s performance lacks depth, and it s hard to feel sympathy for his narcissistic character. On Metacritic it has a score of 45 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade D− on a scale from A to F.

Roger Ebert s printed review of Vanilla Sky awarded the film three out of four stars:

Think it all the way through, and Cameron Crowe s Vanilla Sky is a scrupulously moral picture. It tells the story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because—well, maybe because he has a conscience. Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don t want to analyze until you ve seen it two times.

Ebert interpreted the ending as an explanation for the mechanism of our confusion , rather than a device that tells us for sure what actually happened. Film critic Richard Roeper ranked the film the second best of 2001.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls Vanilla Sky a highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory , but then says: As it leaves behind the real world and begins exploring life as a waking dream (this year s most popular theme in Hollywood movies with lofty ideas), Vanilla Sky loosens its emotional grip and becomes a disorganised and abstract if still-intriguing meditation on parallel themes. One is the quest for eternal life and eternal youth; another is guilt and the ungovernable power of the unconscious mind to undermine science s utopian discoveries. David s redemption ultimately consists of his coming to grips with his own mortality, but that redemption lacks conviction.

Salon.com called Vanilla Sky an aggressively plotted puzzle picture, which clutches many allegedly deep themes to its heaving bosom without uncovering even an onion-skin layer of insight into any of them. The review rhetorically asks: Who would have thought that Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It s a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. … But the disheartening truth is that we can see Crowe taking all the right steps, the most Crowe-like steps, as he mounts a spectacle that overshoots boldness and ambition and idiosyncrasy and heads right for arrogance and pretension—and those last two are traits I never would have thought we d have to ascribe to Crowe. Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 2/4 and wrote: The film s aim—to dazzle and inspire—is sapped by Cruise s vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian and Gareth Von Kallenbach of the publication Film Threat compared Vanilla Sky unfavorably to Open Your Eyes. Bradshaw says Open Your Eyes is certainly more distinctive than Vanilla Sky, which he describes as an extraordinarily narcissistic high-concept vanity project for producer-star Tom Cruise. Other reviewers extrapolate from the knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a version of Amenábar s film. A Village Voice reviewer characterized Vanilla Sky as hauntingly frank about being a manifestation of its star s cosmic narcissism .

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Cameron Diaz compelling as the embodiment of crazed sensuality and The New York Times reviewer said she gives a ferociously emotional performance. Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle similarly says of the film, most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal-attraction stalker is both heartbreaking and terrifying. For her performance, Diaz won multiple critics groups awards, as well as being nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Movie Award, Saturn Award, and AFI Award. Penélope Cruz s performance, however, earned her a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (in addition to her roles in Blow and Captain Corelli s Mandolin).

Awards and nominations

Organization Year of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards 2002 Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
ALMA Awards 2002 Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Penélope Cruz Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Cameron Diaz Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics 2001 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Won
Chicago Film Critics Association 2001 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Won
Critics Choice Movie Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Won
Golden Globe Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Golden Raspberry Awards 2002 Worst Actress Penélope Cruz Nominated
Golden Reel Awards 2002 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film Michael D. Wilhoit (supervising sound editor); Kerry Dean Williams (supervising adr editor); Laura Harris Atkinson (supervising dialogue editor); Tammy Fearing, Eliza Pollack Zebert (adr editors); Mark Gordon, Vic Radulich, Clare C. Freeman, Susan Kurtz (dialogue editors) Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore Carlton Kaller Nominated
Grammy Awards 2003 Best Song Written for Visual Media Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Satellite Awards 2002 Best Original Song Paul McCartney (for the song Vanilla Sky ) Nominated
Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson (for the song I Fall Apart ) Nominated
Saturn Awards 2002 Best Science Fiction Film Vanilla Sky Nominated
Best Actor Tom Cruise Won
Best Supporting Actress Cameron Diaz Nominated
Best Make-Up Michèle Burke and Camille Calvet Nominated
Best Music Nancy Wilson Nominated
2016 Best DVD or Blu-ray Special Edition Release Vanilla Sky (Alternate Ending) Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2002 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Cameron Diaz Nominated

Year 2001
ReleaseDate 2001-12-14
RuntimeMins 136
RuntimeStr 2h 16min
Plot A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar, 5 wins & 34 nominations total
Directors Cameron Crowe
Writers Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil, Cameron Crowe
Stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz
Produced by Bill Block,Fernando Bovaira,Danny Bramson,Cameron Crowe,Tom Cruise,Michael Doven,Donald J. Lee Jr.,Endrick Lekay,Scott M. Martin,Jonathan Sanger,Patrick Wachsberger,Paula Wagner
Music by Nancy Wilson
Cinematography by John Toll
Film Editing by Joe Hutshing,Mark Livolsi
Casting By Gail Levin
Year 2001
Production Design by Catherine Hardwicke
Art Direction by John Chichester,Beat Frutiger,Michael Rizzo,James F. Truesdale,Alec Burnham
ReleaseDate 2001-12-14
Set Decoration by Cloudia Rebar
RuntimeMins 136
Costume Design by Betsy Heimann
RuntimeStr 2h 16min
Makeup Department Mark Anthony,Howard Berger,Bridget Bergman,Michèle Burke,Camille Calvet,Kelcey Fry,Sean Kenney,Katharine Kremp,Robert Kurtzman,Dennis Liddiard,Greg Nicotero,Heather Plott,Darrell Redleaf-Fielder,Kerrie Smith,Peggy Teague,Candy L. Walken,Gary Archer,Christina Raye
Plot A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Production Management Debbi Bossi,Donald J. Lee Jr.,Susan Towner
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Stephen E. Hagen,Greg Hale,Jeani Harris-Olivieri,Alex Jablonski,Don H. Julien,David McGiffert,Marla D. Saltzer,Jonathan Sanger,John R. Saunders,Buddy Joe Hooker,Ronan O Connor
Art Department Joseph Alfieri,Henry Antonacchio,Chris Barnes,James R. Bayliss,Diana Burton,Ellen Freund,R.C. David Freund,Canada Johanna Gordon,Peter Hackman,Alex Hillkurtz,John Hinkle,Patricia Klawonn,Ray Kluga,Keri Lederman,Patrick J. Marchese,Andrew Menzies,Timothy Metzger,Sebastian Milito,Oana Bogdan Miller,Todd Morris,Gloria Murphy,Rich Romig,Beth A. Rubino,Sterling Rush,Victoria Ruskin,Adam Scher,Steven Shellooe,Andrew M. Siegel,Drew Simmons,Phillipa Sledge,John Snow,Meg Hyatt Snow,Carly Starr Brullo Niles,Dixwell Stillman,Tracy Stockwell,Benton E. Tedlie,Gregory Van Horn,Dena Allen,Anne Anderson,Doug Anderson,Julie Aquino,Anthony Baldasare,Stephen Barth,Travis Bobbitt,Julia Bogdan-Rollo,Rocco Buffolino,Susan A. Burig,Paul Camarro,Adolfo Castanon,Gary J. Coelho,Cary Conway,Thomas Cooper,Shannon Curfman,Carol Decarr,Phil Devonshire,Guy Hendrix Dyas,Meg Everist,Paulette Fox,Stephanie Gilliam,Jennie Harris,Alex Hillkurtz,Al Hobbs,Leo Holder,Barry Jones,Michael Jortner,Alexis Kelley,Katie Kemsley,Jane Kilkenny,Michael J. Kinney,Jean B. Kliever,Scott Douglas MacLachlan,James Malia,Thomas Moffitt,Luigi Mugavero,Joseph Musso,Jane Patterson-Loper,Caroline Perzan,Roxanne Reaver,Joseph P. Recchia,Mike Roth,Steven Samanen,Kenneth Sayers,Maurin L. Scarlata,Aleta Shaffer,Kate Sheeley,Andrew M. Siegel,Alexx Thompson,Isabelle Trichard,Michael A. Truesdale
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar, 5 wins & 34 nominations total
Sound Department Cesar Aguirre,Laura Harris Atkinson,Bob Baron,Fred Burke,Kerry Carmean-Williams,Don Coufal,Scott Curtis,Valerie Davidson,Dino Dimuro,Ronald Eng,Lisle Engle,Roger Fearing,Tammy Fearing,Clare C. Freeman,Tim Gomillion,Mark Gordon,Robin Harlan,Matthew Harrison,Doug Hemphill,Rick Kline,Susan Kurtz,Tony Lamberti,Benjamin Martin,Paul Massey,Tim McColm,Joe Milner,Sarah Monat,Ronnie Morgan,Eliza Pollack Zebert,Vic Radulich,Charleen Richards,Dennis Rogers,Geoffrey G. Rubay,Scott Sanders,Katrina Siegmund,Randy Singer,Thomas W. Small,David Stanke,Greg Steele,Jerome R. Vitucci,Jeff Wexler,Michael D. Wilhoit,Kerry Dean Williams,Derek Casari,Jason England,Larry Hopkins,Susan Kurtz,David Lucarelli,Joe Schiff,John Soukup
Directors Cameron Crowe
Special Effects by Linda Bastin,Michael Bird,Kamar Bitar,Ed Caban,Wilfred Caban,Chris Cera,Gary D Amico,James Hall,Chiz Hasegawa,Garrett Immel,Steven Kirshoff,Fred Kraemer,Don Lanning,Wayne Miller,David Perteet,Brian Rae,Robert J. Scupp,Alan Tuskes,Thomas Viviano,Philip Bartko,Ariel Benarroch,Matt Chubet,David Domeyer,Roland Hathaway,Chris Jones,Arthur G. Schlosser,Martin Simon,John Stifanich,Alan Tuskes,Dennis Yeager II
Writers Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil, Cameron Crowe
Visual Effects by Jonathan Alvord,Jeffrey Edward Baksinski,Denise Ballantyne,Johnathan R. Banta,Andra Bard,Andy Barrios,Brian Battles,Ariel Benarroch,Richard A. Benoit,Nancy Bernstein,Sonja Burchard,Shannan Burkley,Elika Burns,Matthew E. Butler,Christopher Campbell,Casey Cannon,Lawrence Carroll,Jeffrey Caruso,John Ceballos,John Michael Courte,Carole Cowley,Betsy Cox,Robyn Crane-Campbell,David Crawford,Robert Cribbett,Jackie Davis,Aaron Dem,Sean Devereaux,Feliciano di Giorgio,David Drzewiecki,Lauryl Duplechan,Gregory Elwood,Conny Fauser,Michael L. Fink,Mark Franco,Fortunato Frattasio,Scott Gastellu,Sandra L. Gates,Swen Gillberg,Cary Green,Kris Gregg,Kirstin Grieve,Rochelle Gross,Dion Hatch,Dartayous Hunter,Josh R. Jaggars,Eli Jarra,Fred Jimenez,Nikos Kalaitzidis,Jeffrey Kalmus,Richard Karnes,Keiko Koyama,Tom Lamb,Van Ling,David Lingenfelser,Kevin Lingenfelser,Kevin Scott Mack,Ross MacKenzie,Patrick Mackle,Jim Makiej,Charlotte Manning,Scott M. Martin,Ramona Martinez,Jon Meier,Steve Miller,Kama Moiha,Evangeline Monroy,Carl S.G. Moore,Heather J. Morrison,Robert Nederhorst,Alison O Brien,Melanie Okamura,Cristin Pescosolido,Cheyenne Pieris,Olun Riley,David Robinson,Stephanie Rogers,Kevin D. Ross,Eric Rucker,Christine Globke Saric,Kosta Saric,Rob Schultz,Nelson Sepulveda,Tony Sgueglia,Carla Sierra,Sharmishtha Sohoni,Bret St. Clair,David Alec Stern,Mary Stuart,Jason Sullivan,Mandy Tankenson,Greg Teegarden,Derick Tortorella,Jessica Trento,Roy Unger,Perri Wainwright,Mark H. Weingartner,Eric Weinschenk,Nancy Adams,Les Bernstien,Amanda Burton,Marla Carter Barrett,Wally Chin,Chad E. Collier,Robert Coquia Jr.,Gregory Creaser,Ken Dackermann,Jason Doss,Scott Edelstein,Adam Francis,Mitch Goldstrom,Dennis Hoffman,Fred Jimenez,Vincent Lavares,Kymber Lim,Chris Logan,Ralph Maiers,Ko Maruyama,S. Scott McCaulley,Will McCoy,Matt McFarland,Brandon McNaughton,Davy Nethercutt,Dan Patterson,Janet Quen,Rod Ripley,Robert Rowles,Marian Rudnyk,Todd Sarsfield,Steven Seed,Doyle Smith,Tess Spaulding,Joshua Spencer,Jeff Sturgill,Nick Swartz,Bryan Taylor,Nowell Valeri,Barry Williams,Jeff Zucker
Stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz
Stunts Jake Brake,Keith Campbell,Jeff Habberstad,Buddy Joe Hooker,Jake Lombard,Brian Smrz,Jim Stephan,Job Alonso,John Branagan,Richard Bucher,John Casino,Chris Cenatiempo,John Cenatiempo,Liisa Cohen,Roy Farfel,Steven Ho,Dustin Meier,William Morts,Carrick O Quinn,Shawn Odum,Denney Pierce,J.P. Romano,Brian Simpson,Gregg Smrz,Kevin Squires
Produced by Bill Block,Fernando Bovaira,Danny Bramson,Cameron Crowe,Tom Cruise,Michael Doven,Donald J. Lee Jr.,Endrick Lekay,Scott M. Martin,Jonathan Sanger,Patrick Wachsberger,Paula Wagner
Camera and Electrical Department Sal Alvarez,Dustin Ault,Herb Ault,Rick Avotte,Steve Ball,Erik Bernstein,Jeff Brinker,Rod Calarco,Michael Cambria,Vincent Camuto Jr.,Nicolas L. Charuet,Francesca Cobaco,Steve Comesky,Billy Craft,Gavin Curran,Julian de la Pena,Dhamarata Dhiensuwana,Jack Donnelly,Sean Donovan,Dayson Engels,Gene Engels,Glen Engels,Carlos Escobar,Steven Frohardt,Raymond Gonzales,Steven A. Guerrero,Richard Guinness Jr.,Paul F. Guyer,Craig Haagensen,Chris Haarhoff,James Harker,Victor Huey,Robert Ikeda,Danny Jimenez,Richard C. Kerekes,Billy Kerwick,Tommy Klines,Doug Kofsky,Dave Lujan,James Mah,Frances Buddy McBride,Larry McConkey,Scott Medcalf,Peter A. Mian,John Milcetic,Chris Napolitano,Darin Necessary,Edward R. Nedin,Chris Olsen,David A. Parks,Neal Preston,Scott Rubin,Sean Smith,Adam Snyder,Brian Stocklin,Ty Suehiro,Mark Suveg,Eric Swanek,Mike Thomas,Chris Toll,Renee Treyball,Francis X. Valdez III,Joseph Viano,Tom Weston,Rick Whitfield,Randy Woodside,Rocky Babcock,James Barrett,Bob Becchio,Stephen S. Campanelli,Julian de la Pena,Bruce Del Castillo,Jeff Durling,Casey Ellison,Paul Fanning,Sean P. Fickert,Jason Gary,Jason Griffiths,Billy Gunn,Eldon Hansen,Jendra Jarnagin,Christopher Kiso,Nick Liampetchakul,Roberto Lopez,Ralph Mendoza,David Norris,Jaim O Neil,Ralph Perri,Scott Probe,Lee Rose,Jon W. Rosenbloom,Cary Sachs,Jack Serino,Raymundo Silva,Eric Swanek,Monte Swann,Nicole Taylor Hart,Vich Thiensuwana,Joel Tishcoff,Chuck Whelan
Music by Nancy Wilson
Casting Department Andrew S. Brown,Charles Kaplan,Rich King,Barbara J. McCarthy,Caitlin McKenna,Jennifer Murdocca,Andrew Fox
Cinematography by John Toll
Costume and Wardrobe Department Suzanne Cranfill,David Davenport,Cathie Filian,Wendy J. Greiner,Amy Habacker,Joyce Kogut,Autumn Saville,Niki Strippoli,Kanani Wolf,Erin Lenk,Tom Soluri,Irena Stepic,Jack Taggart
Film Editing by Joe Hutshing,Mark Livolsi
Editorial Department Mark Bourgeois,Brian Buller,Heather Goodwin Floyd,Cecilia Hyoun,Mike Milliken,Michael Pasqualone,Chris Regan,Ofe Yi,Donald Freeman,Michael Healey,Jennifer Martinez,Marc Sadeghi
Casting By Gail Levin
Location Management Molly Allen,Brad Bemis,Andrew D. Cooke,Robert Doyle,James D. Lee,Len Murach,Kim Noble,Kei Rowan-Young,Albert Epps,Eryka Seimona Henderson,Phill Kane,Susan Pazos,Joaquin Diego Prange,Pat Sones
Production Design by Catherine Hardwicke
Music Department Danny Bramson,Gordon Fordyce,Carlton Kaller,Daniel Mendez,Nancy Wilson,Gary Barlough,Denise Carver,Mike Deasy,Gary Raymond
Art Direction by John Chichester,Beat Frutiger,Michael Rizzo,James F. Truesdale,Alec Burnham
Script and Continuity Department Dianne Dreyer,Ana Maria Quintana,Mikayla Abromowitz
Set Decoration by Cloudia Rebar
Transportation Department David Diaz,Craig Fehrman,John Leonidas,Dennis Radesky,John Blenkhorn,David Conelli,Philip Henderson,Mark D. Hysen,Steve Lewis,Kathryn Moll,Dana Swartout
Costume Design by Betsy Heimann
Additional Crew Rachel Aberly,Allison Adams,Gregg Alberg,Ralph Bakshi,Libuse Binder,Matthew J. Birch,Julia Bogdan-Rollo,Jon Brion,Gloria Calderón Kellett,Augie Carton,Mark Davies,George Doherty,Jeff Domis,Karen C. Eide,Daya Fernandez,Alex Fernández,Andy Fischer,Rhonda George,Matthew K. Grigsby,Christopher Hanada,Susan Hegarty,Jean B. Kliever,Tanner Kling,Stephen Krug,Robert Lambert,Georgia Lepore,Rosero McCoy,Darren Miller,Joni Mitchell,Jessica Murray,Rebecca L. Murray,John Nasraway,Shaun O Banion,Daniel E. Parr,William Pavone,Tim L. Pearson,David Peck,Tim Pierce,Matt Power,Holly Raye,Nicholas Roe,Jamal Sims,Amy Stevens,Lynne Taylor-Corbett,Byron Tokarz,Gretel Twombly,Patty Willett,Harvey Zarem,Andrew Zolot,Julie Adams,Kimberly Aguirre,Michael Beaudin,Dawn Bridgewater,Al Cerullo,Claudia Cifuentes,Don Coppola,Gleanna Doyle,John W. Ervin,Daniel Feighery,Greg Ferris,Jordan Brendan Finnegan,Jay Floyd,Robert Rock Galotti,Donte Gentile,Miguel Angel Govea,Vanessa Grayson,Elizabeth Himelstein,Robert Hoffman,Lee Holifield,Lisa Janelli,Jason Kadlec,Gregg Kawecki,Michael G. Kehoe,Linda Klein,John Kouromihelakis,Joshua Loiko,Seth Lombardi,Jesse Lutz,Lisa Madden,Lisa Mantoux,Stuart T. Maschwitz,Jonas C. Matz,Thomas Maxwell,Darren Maynard,Ray McCort,Andrea O Connor,Sarah Ogletree,Courtney Pakiz,Michalla Petersen,Brad Robinson,Diane Rosenberg,Chris Sanata,Shauna Sanders,Michael L. Schmidt,Erik Sharkey,Rhys Summerhayes,Jason Tamez,Irapaul Turner,Brian Witten
Makeup Department Mark Anthony,Howard Berger,Bridget Bergman,Michèle Burke,Camille Calvet,Kelcey Fry,Sean Kenney,Katharine Kremp,Robert Kurtzman,Dennis Liddiard,Greg Nicotero,Heather Plott,Darrell Redleaf-Fielder,Kerrie Smith,Peggy Teague,Candy L. Walken,Gary Archer,Christina Raye
Thanks John Battista,Jay Floyd,Yasuhiro Fujioka,Conan O Brien,Sunmin Park,Robert Rauschenberg
Production Management Debbi Bossi,Donald J. Lee Jr.,Susan Towner
Genres Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Stephen E. Hagen,Greg Hale,Jeani Harris-Olivieri,Alex Jablonski,Don H. Julien,David McGiffert,Marla D. Saltzer,Jonathan Sanger,John R. Saunders,Buddy Joe Hooker,Ronan O Connor
Companies Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Vinyl Films
Art Department Joseph Alfieri,Henry Antonacchio,Chris Barnes,James R. Bayliss,Diana Burton,Ellen Freund,R.C. David Freund,Canada Johanna Gordon,Peter Hackman,Alex Hillkurtz,John Hinkle,Patricia Klawonn,Ray Kluga,Keri Lederman,Patrick J. Marchese,Andrew Menzies,Timothy Metzger,Sebastian Milito,Oana Bogdan Miller,Todd Morris,Gloria Murphy,Rich Romig,Beth A. Rubino,Sterling Rush,Victoria Ruskin,Adam Scher,Steven Shellooe,Andrew M. Siegel,Drew Simmons,Phillipa Sledge,John Snow,Meg Hyatt Snow,Carly Starr Brullo Niles,Dixwell Stillman,Tracy Stockwell,Benton E. Tedlie,Gregory Van Horn,Dena Allen,Anne Anderson,Doug Anderson,Julie Aquino,Anthony Baldasare,Stephen Barth,Travis Bobbitt,Julia Bogdan-Rollo,Rocco Buffolino,Susan A. Burig,Paul Camarro,Adolfo Castanon,Gary J. Coelho,Cary Conway,Thomas Cooper,Shannon Curfman,Carol Decarr,Phil Devonshire,Guy Hendrix Dyas,Meg Everist,Paulette Fox,Stephanie Gilliam,Jennie Harris,Alex Hillkurtz,Al Hobbs,Leo Holder,Barry Jones,Michael Jortner,Alexis Kelley,Katie Kemsley,Jane Kilkenny,Michael J. Kinney,Jean B. Kliever,Scott Douglas MacLachlan,James Malia,Thomas Moffitt,Luigi Mugavero,Joseph Musso,Jane Patterson-Loper,Caroline Perzan,Roxanne Reaver,Joseph P. Recchia,Mike Roth,Steven Samanen,Kenneth Sayers,Maurin L. Scarlata,Aleta Shaffer,Kate Sheeley,Andrew M. Siegel,Alexx Thompson,Isabelle Trichard,Michael A. Truesdale
Countries USA, Spain
Sound Department Cesar Aguirre,Laura Harris Atkinson,Bob Baron,Fred Burke,Kerry Carmean-Williams,Don Coufal,Scott Curtis,Valerie Davidson,Dino Dimuro,Ronald Eng,Lisle Engle,Roger Fearing,Tammy Fearing,Clare C. Freeman,Tim Gomillion,Mark Gordon,Robin Harlan,Matthew Harrison,Doug Hemphill,Rick Kline,Susan Kurtz,Tony Lamberti,Benjamin Martin,Paul Massey,Tim McColm,Joe Milner,Sarah Monat,Ronnie Morgan,Eliza Pollack Zebert,Vic Radulich,Charleen Richards,Dennis Rogers,Geoffrey G. Rubay,Scott Sanders,Katrina Siegmund,Randy Singer,Thomas W. Small,David Stanke,Greg Steele,Jerome R. Vitucci,Jeff Wexler,Michael D. Wilhoit,Kerry Dean Williams,Derek Casari,Jason England,Larry Hopkins,Susan Kurtz,David Lucarelli,Joe Schiff,John Soukup
Languages English, Spanish
Special Effects by Linda Bastin,Michael Bird,Kamar Bitar,Ed Caban,Wilfred Caban,Chris Cera,Gary D Amico,James Hall,Chiz Hasegawa,Garrett Immel,Steven Kirshoff,Fred Kraemer,Don Lanning,Wayne Miller,David Perteet,Brian Rae,Robert J. Scupp,Alan Tuskes,Thomas Viviano,Philip Bartko,Ariel Benarroch,Matt Chubet,David Domeyer,Roland Hathaway,Chris Jones,Arthur G. Schlosser,Martin Simon,John Stifanich,Alan Tuskes,Dennis Yeager II
ContentRating R
Visual Effects by Jonathan Alvord,Jeffrey Edward Baksinski,Denise Ballantyne,Johnathan R. Banta,Andra Bard,Andy Barrios,Brian Battles,Ariel Benarroch,Richard A. Benoit,Nancy Bernstein,Sonja Burchard,Shannan Burkley,Elika Burns,Matthew E. Butler,Christopher Campbell,Casey Cannon,Lawrence Carroll,Jeffrey Caruso,John Ceballos,John Michael Courte,Carole Cowley,Betsy Cox,Robyn Crane-Campbell,David Crawford,Robert Cribbett,Jackie Davis,Aaron Dem,Sean Devereaux,Feliciano di Giorgio,David Drzewiecki,Lauryl Duplechan,Gregory Elwood,Conny Fauser,Michael L. Fink,Mark Franco,Fortunato Frattasio,Scott Gastellu,Sandra L. Gates,Swen Gillberg,Cary Green,Kris Gregg,Kirstin Grieve,Rochelle Gross,Dion Hatch,Dartayous Hunter,Josh R. Jaggars,Eli Jarra,Fred Jimenez,Nikos Kalaitzidis,Jeffrey Kalmus,Richard Karnes,Keiko Koyama,Tom Lamb,Van Ling,David Lingenfelser,Kevin Lingenfelser,Kevin Scott Mack,Ross MacKenzie,Patrick Mackle,Jim Makiej,Charlotte Manning,Scott M. Martin,Ramona Martinez,Jon Meier,Steve Miller,Kama Moiha,Evangeline Monroy,Carl S.G. Moore,Heather J. Morrison,Robert Nederhorst,Alison O Brien,Melanie Okamura,Cristin Pescosolido,Cheyenne Pieris,Olun Riley,David Robinson,Stephanie Rogers,Kevin D. Ross,Eric Rucker,Christine Globke Saric,Kosta Saric,Rob Schultz,Nelson Sepulveda,Tony Sgueglia,Carla Sierra,Sharmishtha Sohoni,Bret St. Clair,David Alec Stern,Mary Stuart,Jason Sullivan,Mandy Tankenson,Greg Teegarden,Derick Tortorella,Jessica Trento,Roy Unger,Perri Wainwright,Mark H. Weingartner,Eric Weinschenk,Nancy Adams,Les Bernstien,Amanda Burton,Marla Carter Barrett,Wally Chin,Chad E. Collier,Robert Coquia Jr.,Gregory Creaser,Ken Dackermann,Jason Doss,Scott Edelstein,Adam Francis,Mitch Goldstrom,Dennis Hoffman,Fred Jimenez,Vincent Lavares,Kymber Lim,Chris Logan,Ralph Maiers,Ko Maruyama,S. Scott McCaulley,Will McCoy,Matt McFarland,Brandon McNaughton,Davy Nethercutt,Dan Patterson,Janet Quen,Rod Ripley,Robert Rowles,Marian Rudnyk,Todd Sarsfield,Steven Seed,Doyle Smith,Tess Spaulding,Joshua Spencer,Jeff Sturgill,Nick Swartz,Bryan Taylor,Nowell Valeri,Barry Williams,Jeff Zucker
ImDbRating 6.9
Stunts Jake Brake,Keith Campbell,Jeff Habberstad,Buddy Joe Hooker,Jake Lombard,Brian Smrz,Jim Stephan,Job Alonso,John Branagan,Richard Bucher,John Casino,Chris Cenatiempo,John Cenatiempo,Liisa Cohen,Roy Farfel,Steven Ho,Dustin Meier,William Morts,Carrick O Quinn,Shawn Odum,Denney Pierce,J.P. Romano,Brian Simpson,Gregg Smrz,Kevin Squires
ImDbRatingVotes 265981
Camera and Electrical Department Sal Alvarez,Dustin Ault,Herb Ault,Rick Avotte,Steve Ball,Erik Bernstein,Jeff Brinker,Rod Calarco,Michael Cambria,Vincent Camuto Jr.,Nicolas L. Charuet,Francesca Cobaco,Steve Comesky,Billy Craft,Gavin Curran,Julian de la Pena,Dhamarata Dhiensuwana,Jack Donnelly,Sean Donovan,Dayson Engels,Gene Engels,Glen Engels,Carlos Escobar,Steven Frohardt,Raymond Gonzales,Steven A. Guerrero,Richard Guinness Jr.,Paul F. Guyer,Craig Haagensen,Chris Haarhoff,James Harker,Victor Huey,Robert Ikeda,Danny Jimenez,Richard C. Kerekes,Billy Kerwick,Tommy Klines,Doug Kofsky,Dave Lujan,James Mah,Frances Buddy McBride,Larry McConkey,Scott Medcalf,Peter A. Mian,John Milcetic,Chris Napolitano,Darin Necessary,Edward R. Nedin,Chris Olsen,David A. Parks,Neal Preston,Scott Rubin,Sean Smith,Adam Snyder,Brian Stocklin,Ty Suehiro,Mark Suveg,Eric Swanek,Mike Thomas,Chris Toll,Renee Treyball,Francis X. Valdez III,Joseph Viano,Tom Weston,Rick Whitfield,Randy Woodside,Rocky Babcock,James Barrett,Bob Becchio,Stephen S. Campanelli,Julian de la Pena,Bruce Del Castillo,Jeff Durling,Casey Ellison,Paul Fanning,Sean P. Fickert,Jason Gary,Jason Griffiths,Billy Gunn,Eldon Hansen,Jendra Jarnagin,Christopher Kiso,Nick Liampetchakul,Roberto Lopez,Ralph Mendoza,David Norris,Jaim O Neil,Ralph Perri,Scott Probe,Lee Rose,Jon W. Rosenbloom,Cary Sachs,Jack Serino,Raymundo Silva,Eric Swanek,Monte Swann,Nicole Taylor Hart,Vich Thiensuwana,Joel Tishcoff,Chuck Whelan
MetacriticRating 45
Casting Department Andrew S. Brown,Charles Kaplan,Rich King,Barbara J. McCarthy,Caitlin McKenna,Jennifer Murdocca,Andrew Fox
Costume and Wardrobe Department Suzanne Cranfill,David Davenport,Cathie Filian,Wendy J. Greiner,Amy Habacker,Joyce Kogut,Autumn Saville,Niki Strippoli,Kanani Wolf,Erin Lenk,Tom Soluri,Irena Stepic,Jack Taggart
Editorial Department Mark Bourgeois,Brian Buller,Heather Goodwin Floyd,Cecilia Hyoun,Mike Milliken,Michael Pasqualone,Chris Regan,Ofe Yi,Donald Freeman,Michael Healey,Jennifer Martinez,Marc Sadeghi
Location Management Molly Allen,Brad Bemis,Andrew D. Cooke,Robert Doyle,James D. Lee,Len Murach,Kim Noble,Kei Rowan-Young,Albert Epps,Eryka Seimona Henderson,Phill Kane,Susan Pazos,Joaquin Diego Prange,Pat Sones
Music Department Danny Bramson,Gordon Fordyce,Carlton Kaller,Daniel Mendez,Nancy Wilson,Gary Barlough,Denise Carver,Mike Deasy,Gary Raymond
Script and Continuity Department Dianne Dreyer,Ana Maria Quintana,Mikayla Abromowitz
Transportation Department David Diaz,Craig Fehrman,John Leonidas,Dennis Radesky,John Blenkhorn,David Conelli,Philip Henderson,Mark D. Hysen,Steve Lewis,Kathryn Moll,Dana Swartout
Additional Crew Rachel Aberly,Allison Adams,Gregg Alberg,Ralph Bakshi,Libuse Binder,Matthew J. Birch,Julia Bogdan-Rollo,Jon Brion,Gloria Calderón Kellett,Augie Carton,Mark Davies,George Doherty,Jeff Domis,Karen C. Eide,Daya Fernandez,Alex Fernández,Andy Fischer,Rhonda George,Matthew K. Grigsby,Christopher Hanada,Susan Hegarty,Jean B. Kliever,Tanner Kling,Stephen Krug,Robert Lambert,Georgia Lepore,Rosero McCoy,Darren Miller,Joni Mitchell,Jessica Murray,Rebecca L. Murray,John Nasraway,Shaun O Banion,Daniel E. Parr,William Pavone,Tim L. Pearson,David Peck,Tim Pierce,Matt Power,Holly Raye,Nicholas Roe,Jamal Sims,Amy Stevens,Lynne Taylor-Corbett,Byron Tokarz,Gretel Twombly,Patty Willett,Harvey Zarem,Andrew Zolot,Julie Adams,Kimberly Aguirre,Michael Beaudin,Dawn Bridgewater,Al Cerullo,Claudia Cifuentes,Don Coppola,Gleanna Doyle,John W. Ervin,Daniel Feighery,Greg Ferris,Jordan Brendan Finnegan,Jay Floyd,Robert Rock Galotti,Donte Gentile,Miguel Angel Govea,Vanessa Grayson,Elizabeth Himelstein,Robert Hoffman,Lee Holifield,Lisa Janelli,Jason Kadlec,Gregg Kawecki,Michael G. Kehoe,Linda Klein,John Kouromihelakis,Joshua Loiko,Seth Lombardi,Jesse Lutz,Lisa Madden,Lisa Mantoux,Stuart T. Maschwitz,Jonas C. Matz,Thomas Maxwell,Darren Maynard,Ray McCort,Andrea O Connor,Sarah Ogletree,Courtney Pakiz,Michalla Petersen,Brad Robinson,Diane Rosenberg,Chris Sanata,Shauna Sanders,Michael L. Schmidt,Erik Sharkey,Rhys Summerhayes,Jason Tamez,Irapaul Turner,Brian Witten
Keywords dream,death,mask,nightmare,amnesia
Thanks John Battista,Jay Floyd,Yasuhiro Fujioka,Conan O Brien,Sunmin Park,Robert Rauschenberg
Genres Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Companies Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Vinyl Films
Countries USA, Spain
Languages English, Spanish
ContentRating R
ImDbRating 6.9
ImDbRatingVotes 265981
MetacriticRating 45
Keywords dream,death,mask,nightmare,amnesia