What Dreams May Come(Movie, 1998)

Name: What Dreams May Come
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
Released: 1998
Duration: T01:53:00
Rating: 3.6

| 1h 53min | Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 996 votes)

What Dreams May Come is a 1998 American fantasy drama film directed by Vincent Ward and adapted by Ronald Bass from the 1978 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. Starring Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, and Cuba Gooding Jr., it won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. The title is from a line in Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its scenery, but criticizing the plot. It was also a box-office bomb, only grossing $75.4 million against a budget of $85‒90 million. ()

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Awards & Nominations for What Dreams May Come

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nominated for: Academy Award for Best Production Design nominated for: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

About What Dreams May Come

Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

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Trailer 2(Trailer, 2:28)

Trailer 2 (Trailer) | What Dreams May Come Official Trailer (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: San Francisco (California), Niagara Falls (New York)

Plays in: Venezuela

Based on: "What Dreams May Come" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Universal Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 32 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Esperanto (EO), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 02/21/1999 (World premiere: 10/02/1998)

Cast: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Rosalind Chao, Lucinda Jenney, Matt Salinger, Werner Herzog, Jessica Brooks Grant

Director: Vincent Ward

Screenwriter: Ronald Bass

Film Editor: David Brenner

Director of Photography: Eduardo Serra

Composer: Michael Kamen

Costume designer: Yvonne Blake

Production Designer: Eugenio Zanetti

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Más allá de los sueños"

"Amor alem da Vida"

"Hinter dem Horizont - Das Ende ist nur der Anfang"

"飛越來仕緣"

"رویاها چه می شوند"

"Al di là dei sogni"

"Mas Alla De Los Sueños"

"美夢成真"

"Де живуть мрії"

Keywords: hell, spiritism, paradise, painting, afterlife, heaven

Budget: 85,000,000 USD

Revenue: 71,485,043 USD (= 84%)

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What Dreams May Come(Movie, 1998)

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