Tom Cruise

The archive carries a news item about a transfer of rights involving Tom Cruise and, four years on, the result of that transfer. In 1997 Paul Julian Smith writes that the remake rights to Open Your Eyes are said to have been sold to him; in 2001 Xan Brooks reports that some have already viewed Vanilla Sky as an extended metaphor for his own existence as a star. Judgements of performance stand between the two: Leslie Dick finds Magnolia worth seeing for his playing alone, while Andrew O'Hehir holds that his low-key manner works only when he is given time to steep in a part. Our catalogue keeps Open Your Eyes as Alejandro Amenabar's work and Cruise is not in its cast. A special David at Rome in 2005 stands to him besides, the archive naming no work in that item.