A remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes (1997), this hriller from director Cameron Crowe bears one of several discarded titles for his previous, Oscar-winning film Almost Famous (2000). Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizing playboy who finds romantic redemption when he falls in love with his best friends girlfriend Sofia (Penelope Cruz, reprising her role from the original film). Before that relationship can begin, however, David is coaxed into a car driven by an ex-lover, Julie (Cameron Diaz), who turns out to be suicidal. Driving her car off a bridge, Julie kills herself and horribly disfigures David. Reconstructive surgery and the loving support of Sofia seem to reverse Davids luck, but eerie incidents are soon making him question the reality of his existence and his control over his life, even while he is suspected of complicity in Julies death. Vanilla Sky (2001) bears the expected Crowe trademark of an obsession with recent pop culture and particularly ock music, a more important element of the remake than the original film. That projects writer/director, Alejandro Amenabar, crafted his own supernatural hit the same year with The Others (2001), starring Nicole Kidman, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Cruise. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide