Vanilla Sky (with Logan Kenny)

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All good things must come to an end. Today, we have to say goodbye to our month long retrospective on the Rotten works of America's last movie star, Tom Cruise. Critic and writer Logan Kenny returns to the podcast  to help us dissect the most divisive film of Cruise and director Cameron Crowe's careers, 2001's "Vanilla Sky."

Crowe and Cruise made their long awaited reunion at the turn of the century with an ambitious remake of director Alejandro Amenábar's "Open Your Eyes," bringing back original Penelope Cruz to star alongside Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell and Jason Lee. The results weren't quite a disaster, but to this day, the film has divided audiences and critics, potentially altering the future of both Cruise and Crowe's careers. A distinctive, challenging piece of American pop cinema, "Vanilla Sky" joins the ranks of misunderstood masterpieces like Spike Lee's "Bamboozled," Jane Campion's "In the Cut" and David Cronenberg's "Crash" as one of the defining films of the podcast.