![]() But whether sleeping or not, he certainly has amazing teeth. Vanilla Sky concerns a man who has trouble sleeping, and even when he is not sleeping he cannot be sure he is awake. This is clearly a desperate attempt to be taken more seriously, for the film is nothing if not an earnest attempt to deal with the big questions. A talented, respected screenwriter and a competent director best known for the charming, if schmaltzy Jerry Maguire, and the charming, if schmaltzy Almost Famous, Crowe does not seem like the sort of person who would deliberately become ensnared in a non-commercial, self-consciously arty mess like Vanilla Sky. Why Crowe agreed to pilot this handpicked Cruise project is a mystery apparently he really wanted to work with the star. Vanilla Sky is a pretentious, interminable remake of Alejandro Amenabar's pretentious, interminable 1997 film Open Your Eyes, which also starred the sparrow-like but then unknown Cruz. Since going to bed with Penelope Cruz and waking up with Cameron Diaz - or vice versa - is a problem most men could handle with no problem at all, it is fair to say that Crowe has not built enormous sympathy for his protagonist. This eventually drives him around the bend, to the point that he is willing to contemplate murder, suicide or both. ![]() In Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise keeps going to bed with the sparrow-like Penelope Cruz and waking up with the foxy Cameron Diaz, or going to bed with the foxy Cameron Diaz and waking up with the sparrow-like Penelope Cruz. ![]()
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