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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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This story depicts an unexpected type of place we could go when we pass from this mortal sphere. The ultimate theme is that heaven is what you make it. One faithful husband's passing brings him everywhere from inside his favorite painting from his wife, to realizing that he is dead and learning how to accept it, to exercising the ability to understand that flesh has no weight in heaven, to realizing the weight of all he said and did in life. This touching storyline endeavors to point out that nothing is as it appears in life and if we don't realize our mistakes until we die, it has already been held off longer than it should have been.
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Love this movie. This is the kind of movie that you will need a big box of tissues & a blanket. It will brake your heart. But then it will make you fall in love with it in the end.
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The movie suggests the 1st plausible reality for heaven and hell I have seen. Very well done. I will watch this one over again.
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What Dreams May Come (blu ray)...Love Will Keep Chris and Annie...
Video: This 1080p 2.35:1 is very pleasant, but not spectacular. The cinematography and visual effects really stand out in this movie. Read more
Published on May 6 2011 by Dr. Joseph Lee
2.0 out of 5 stars
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J'aurais pensé que ce film était en français mais il est seulement sous-titré en français. Read more
Published on Nov 10 2010 by Dominique Tremblay
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Those who grieve over a suicide - beware
There are a significant number of movies that are heart warming, supportive and life giving . . . for families bereaved by suicide . . . this is not one of them. Read more
Published on Jan 10 2007 by John Dube
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The film is not like the book.
This is a typical Robin Williams film, sentimental to the extreme which is fine if that's what you are expecting. Read more
Published on Jun 28 2006 by Ms. H. Sinton
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Great film
Beautiful story and graphics about deep connection and love for each other, even in the afterlife.
Published on Jun 30 2005
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Visually beautiful and theologically interesting
There are surprisingly few movies dealing with a nonterrestrial afterlife. While there are hundreds of films dealing with the existence of individuals following death as embodied... Read more
Published on July 10 2004 by Robert Moore
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A Different Type of Love Story
This is a wonderful tale of death and love. Robin Williams dies in a car crash and wakes up in heaven. Read more
Published on July 3 2004 by papaphilly
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A great movie despite some flaws
"What Dreams May Come" is an overlooked film that should have gotten more attention than it did. Read more
Published on Jun 25 2004 by eric_f
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Early Afternoon Matinee
The dreams that came to me while watching the newfound romance in hell movie What Dreams May Come came to me as a sort of shock. Read more
Published on Jun 21 2004
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5 Stars For Visuals 3 Stars For Everything Else
Visually beautiful movie. The Heaven sequences are alive with color and possibility. The plot bogs down in William's usual maudlin sentimentality. Read more
Published on Jun 10 2004 by J
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