Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film, a very faithful remake of the 1997 Spanish language film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes). Tom Cruise is the headlining male lead in the remake, while Penelope Cruz is the female lead in both versions. These two films, along with Waking Life and Inception, are the most prominent depictions of lucid dreaming in popular cinema. Unlike Waking Life, which explores lucid dreaming on a pretty much direct level, Vanilla Sky explores the subject in the contexts of simulated reality and life extension. Among the themes featured in the film are: