What Dreams May Come | 
| Director: Vincent Ward
Actors: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max Von Sydow, Jessica Brooks Grant
Studio: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  479 reviews
Sales Rank: 1239
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD22678D
ISBN: 0783277547
UPC: 025192267826
EAN: 9780783277547
ASIN: B00007GZR5
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 1998
Release Date: March 4, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
DOCTOR CHRIS NIELSEN MEETS HIS TRUE SOUL MATE ANNIE, MARRIES HER AND HAS TWO CHILDREN. THE CHILDREN DIE IN A CAR ACCIDENT, AND CHRIS DIES FOUR YEARS AFTER THAT. ENDING UP IN HEAVEN, HE IS GUIDED BY FRIENDLY ANGEL ALBERT THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE, AND HE IS REUNITED WITH HIS DOG AND CHILDREN.
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Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra star in this visually stunning metaphysical tale of life after death. Neurologist Chris and artist Annie had the perfect life until they lost their children in an auto accident; they're just starting to recover when Chris meets an untimely death himself. He's met by a messenger named Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and taken to his own personal afterlife--a freshly drawn world reminiscent of Annie's own artwork, still dripping and wet with paint. Meanwhile a depressed Annie takes her own life, compelling Chris to traverse heaven and hell to save Annie from an eternity of despair. The multitextured visuals seem to have been created from a lost fairy tale. Heaven recalls the landscape paintings of Thomas Cole and Renaissance architecture complete with floating cherubs, while hell is a massive shipwreck, an upside-down cathedral overgrown with thorns and a sea of groaning faces popping out of the ground (one of those faces is German director Werner Herzog). Williams is the perfect actor to play against the imaginative computer-generated imagery--he himself is a human special effect. But the lack of chemistry between Williams and Sciorra is painfully apparent, and the flashback plot structure flattens the story's impact despite its deeply felt examinations of the heart and the spirit. Still, there's no denying Eugenio Zanetti's triumphant production design and the Oscar-winning special effects, which create a fully formed universe that is at once beautiful, eerie, and a unique example of movie magic. --Shannon Gee
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| Customer Reviews: Read 474 more reviews...
 Not as cool as I remember. June 30, 2009
Jordan Myers (Michigan)
I wish I hadn't bought it. I don't like this movie at all. It arrived on time and played like new, but it sucks.
 What Dreams May Come June 26, 2009
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very misleading! June 14, 2009
Kelleigh (Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a friend affected by suicide, and the movie portays suicides as going to hell....OFFENSIVE AND HURTFUL!!
Visionary fantasy May 3, 2009
David Bonesteel (Fresno, CA United States)
Years after the death of his two children, a man (Robin Williams) dies and goes to Heaven. Bereft in her solitude, his wife (Annabella Sciorra) commits suicide and goes to Hell. The loving husband risks all to rescue his soulmate from eternal damnation.
Director Vincent Ward's film marries visual spectacle to intense personal drama in a manner rarely equaled in film. The afterlife in this film is mutable and responsive to the thoughts and dreams of its inhabitants, providing many opportunities for magnificent images, and the crew is up to the challenge. Williams, Sciorra, and the rest of the talented cast provide the emotional core.
 Strange movie April 4, 2009
Tallulah (MN)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not what I expected. Lots of sensationalism. Not the spiritual movie I had been led to believe it was.
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