Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky (2001) is a sci-fi mystery romance you can watch online on iFILM. Director Cameron Crowe adapted Alejandro Amenábar's Spanish film Abre los ojos (1997) for Paramount Pictures, casting Tom Cruise opposite Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, and Tilda Swinton in a 130-minute puzzle about identity and perception.

David Aames has wealth, a publishing empire, and a face that opens every door in Manhattan. Then a single car ride with an unstable ex, Julie (Cameron Diaz), leaves him disfigured and wearing a prosthetic mask. He wakes up in a police cell being questioned by detective McCabe (Kurt Russell) about a murder — possibly his own. The woman he fell for the night before the crash, Sofia (Penélope Cruz), keeps appearing and disappearing in ways that don't add up. A specialist called Rebecca Dearborn (Tilda Swinton) offers an explanation. Whether to believe her is another matter entirely.

The film earned $203 million worldwide and earned a devoted following for its layered, non-linear structure. Cameron Crowe assembled an extraordinary soundtrack — Radiohead, The Beach Boys, R.E.M., Sigur Rós — that amplifies the film's dream-logic atmosphere. Stream Vanilla Sky (2001) online on iFILM.