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What Dreams May Come Details

1998 Certificate 15
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One man's visually compelling journey through heaven, hell, and other worlds. Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies but cannot rest until he finds and joins his deceased wife (Sciorra) in the afterlife with the help of a friendly spirit (Gooding Jr.). Academy Award winner, Best Visual Effects, nominated for Best Art Direction-Set .. Read more

Starring Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Director Vincent Ward
Genres Drama, Romance

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What Dreams May Come

One man's visually compelling journey through heaven, hell, and other worlds. Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies but cannot rest until he finds and joins his deceased wife (Sciorra) in the afterlife with the help of a friendly spirit (Gooding Jr.). Academy Award winner, Best Visual Effects, nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration.

Starring Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Cuba Gooding Jr., Rosalind Chao
Director Vincent Ward
Studio UCA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 53 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama, Romance
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: German
Released DVD: 10 Jan 2005
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of What Dreams May Come

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Ghastly love-after-death fantasy, with Annabella Sciorra as a suicide consigned to her own private hell, and Robin Williams as her dead hubby, a car-crash victim, consigned to his own painterly paradise, but forsaking it to be reunited with the love of his life — and death. Vincent Ward, director of The Navigator — a Medieval Odyssey (1988) and Map Of The Human Heart, (1992) brings his usual visual style to this tosh and as a result the film looks wonderful. But that's all that is wonderful about it as, visuals aside, this is slow and sentimental slush, with Williams at his mawkish, sincere worst.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Hollywood's brand of warm, huggy theology gets ever stranger: heaven here is a gooey oil painting, psychobabble is the angelic language, there's no deity in view, and the occupants can't wait to leave the place and get back to Earth. The mind boggles.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 14 out of 16 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    I cried me a river...

    Some folks might be put off by the dark subject matter, and at times it is. But the film is well balanced between moribund and uplifting, and not all the tears are ones of sadness. The acting is fairly good, though I have to say that Cuba Gooding was excellent, as were the special effects that added depth to the movies premise without putting all else in the shade.You'll cry... you'll laugh, you might even be caught out by the odd surprise: but you'll never be bored. When I pop my clogs I know where I want to go

      • The Dawn Riser from Penicuik, Scotland
      • Posted 11 Oct 2004 17:58

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Our rating was 5

    This film is very well made, acted and thought out. It was a bit too 'arty' for me but Luke really enjoyed it. It's very heartfelt and a bit of a tear jerker (me again not Luke).

    Somewhat confusing so you really have to focus on the film, you couldn't go off and make a cuppa and not miss something.

    I wouldn't watch it again but Luke would.

      • LukenJamie from Hampshire
      • Posted 24 Nov 2004 22:53

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      One man's visually compelling journey through heaven, hell, and other worlds. Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies but cannot rest until he finds and joins his deceased wife (Sciorra) in the afterlife with the help of a friendly spirit (Gooding Jr.). Academy Award winner, Best Visual Effects, nominated ...