What Dreams May Come

Vincent Ward (1998)

108min

15 Certificate

Review

Our Score

by Dave Aldridge

This ghastly love-after-death fantasy has 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. Director Vincent Ward (The Navigator - a Medieval Odyssey, Map of the Human Heart) 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.

Summary

The spirit of a man killed in a car crash uses his vivid imagination to create a breath-taking world - but he is unable to fully enjoy his heavenly home without his wife beside him. However, when grief drives her to suicide, she ends up in an altogether more hellish afterlife, prompting her husband to embark on a perilous mission to rescue her from the dark side. Fantasy, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr, Annabella Sciorra and Max von Sydow.

Cast & Crew

Chris Nielsen Robin Williams

Albert Cuba Gooding Jr

The Tracker Max von Sydow

Annie Nielsen Annabella Sciorra

Marie Nielsen Jessica Brooks Grant

Ian Nielsen Josh Paddock

Leona Rosalind Chao

Mrs Jacobs Lucinda Jenney

Director Vincent Ward

Other Information

Language: EnglishColourTheatrical distributor: Polygram Filmed EntertainmentGuidance: Contains swearing, some violence, and brief nudity. Available on: video and DVD

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