Vanilla Sky

Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizing playboy who falls in love with his best friend’s girlfriend Sofia. Before that relationship can begin, however, David is coaxed into a car driven by an ex-lover, Julie, 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 David’s 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 Julie’s death. Co-starring Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz.

As a thriller, [Sky] has all of Cameron Crowe’s ideas in it, and the questions and the things that I find interesting. You can have that ride, the pop culture ride, but underneath there’s some things you can walk away with and a film that you might want to see before dinner so you can sit down and talk about it.