Mortality as entertainment cannot be the future, can it?

Title:	Vanilla Sky
Rating:	R
Running Time:	137 mins
Release Date:	December 14, 2001
Director:	Cameron Crowe
Writer(s):	Cameron Crowe
Starring:	Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor and Cameron Diaz
Company:	Paramount Pictures

Open your eyes and take another look at Vanilla Sky, the much-maligned puzzle movie that Tom Cruise and director Cameron Crowe made as an encore to Jerry Maguire.  Audiences in 2001 thought the toothy mega-star would always play handsome, infallible heroes, and recoiled when the fantastical melodrama remade Cruise into a disfigured murderer. Will podcasters Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart see new virtues as they pull the intricate story out of deep freeze, or are they just de-thawing a 17-year-old dog?  Find out when you become a Now Playing Patron!

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