Vanilla Sky

Cameron Crowe is probably one of the funniest, sweetest, most sensitive, perceptive commercial writer-directors working today.

But somewhere in the making of this film, Crowe got abducted - by aliens, perhaps? - and was replaced by a David Lynch wannabe.

That's the only logical reason for the convoluted chaos that is Vanilla Sky. It starts off promisingly enough - David Aames Jr (Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire in a different guise) is the playboy heir to a publishing empire. He's got a beautiful bedmate, Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz in a devastatingly chilling performance), whom he calls his "f**kbuddy", a houseful of Monets, and a svelte Ferrari.

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