Kurt Russell Joined This Tom Cruise SciFi Movie Without Reading The Script

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- "Vanilla Sky" emerges as a competent puzzle-box mystery with a fiery heart at its center.
- Compound this with stellar performances across the board (Tom Cruise!
- Cameron Diaz!
- Penélope Cruz!)
- and you get a layered film that delves deep into the psychosexual impulses that shape our perception of love and self-identity.
- Russell's eagerness to share the screen with Cruise makes sense, as the two had come very close to playing brothers in the 1991 action thriller, "Backdraft"
Cameron Crowes Vanilla Sky unfolds like a bittersweet fever dream. Despite doing exceptionally well at the box office, the film received mixed critical reception, as it was perceived as thematical [+2021 chars]