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What Dreams May Come

1998 · Movie · PG-13 · 113 min

7.2(2,546)unSUB Rating

DramaFantasyRomance

After dying suddenly, a devoted husband awakens in a breathtaking afterlife shaped by memory and imagination. When he learns his wife is lost in a darker place, he chooses to leave paradise behind and undertake a perilous journey, driven by grief, hope, and an unshakable belief in love.

Based on What Dreams May Come

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Details
Years
1998
Release date
1998-10-02
Language
English
Rated
PG-13
Runtime
113 min
TMDB rating (input)
7.2/10 (2,546 votes)
Box office
$55,382,927
Budget
$85,000,000
About

You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an emotional, romantic fantasy about love and loss with striking, dreamlike imagery, similar in spirit to The Fountain or City of Angels; Not for you if you dislike intense grief, suicide themes, or a slow, sentimental pace.

Pros: vivid, painting-like visuals; heartfelt romance; imaginative afterlife journey | Cons: heavy grief themes; sentimental tone; uneven pacing

Themes

  • paradise
  • husband wife relationship
  • soulmates
  • afterlife
  • painting
  • hell
  • heaven
  • car crash
  • death
  • death of husband
  • spiritism
  • death of a child
  • +4 more

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Visual Effects · 1999
  • Academy AwardBest Visual Effects · 1999 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Production Design · 1999 · nominated

Cast & crew

Directed by Vincent Ward