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Vanilla Sky

2001 · Movie · 136 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer43%as of 2024-08-02
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.3/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic45/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film starring Tom Cruise as a magazine publisher who begins to question reality after being disfigured in a car crash. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, who also produced with Cruise and Paula Wagner, it is an English-language remake of the 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes, which was written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil.

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Genres
Science fiction / Drama / Romance
Original language
English

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