What Dreams May Come [VHS]

What Dreams May Come [VHS]
by Vincent Ward

What Dreams May Come [VHS]
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Actor: Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jessica Brooks Grant, Max von Sydow, Robin Williams
Director: Vincent Ward
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Editor: David Brenner
Editor: Maysie Hoy
Producer: Ronald Bass
Producer: Ted Field
Producer: Erica Huggins
Producer: Scott Kroopf
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, THX
Running Time: 114 minutes
Release Date: 1999-08-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Studio: Polygram Filmed Entertainment

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Movie Review: Fantastic romp with loads of style
Summary: 4 Stars

First of all let me say that this movie is HARD to watch. It starts out with tragedy and takes a very long time to swoop out of it - in the end it is an uplifting movie, and amazingly crafted both visually and philosophically - but for the majority of the movie it grips you hard by your emotional core and doesn't let go.
The visual style is incredible, the special effects way ahead of their time, and a take on both cinematic presentation and the afterlife unlike any I've ever seen before.

It can be at times a little heavy-handed and overly serious, but with both incredibly strong performances across the board and a deeply compelling story. This movie definitely goes high on my list as a little-known must see movie.

Summary of What Dreams May Come [VHS]

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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