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What Dreams May Come
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2491
- IMDb #2201
- Google retired #780
- Rotten Tomatoes #2626
- Metacritic #3345
- Letterboxd #2211
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3776
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1210
- Metacritic Critics #3970
- Metacritic Audience #1962
- Criticker #2074
- Douban #770
- Kinopoisk #400
- AlloCiné #2415
- Trakt #1546
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 44, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 48, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man dies in a car accident and finds himself in a breathtaking afterlife that is a manifestation of his own imagination. He discovers that his wife, overwhelmed by grief, has taken her own life and is trapped in a personalized hell of her own creation. He makes the extraordinary decision to journey into this dark realm, risking his own eternal peace to rescue her soul.
Details
- Director
- Vincent Ward
- Writer
- Ronald Bass
- Based on
- What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
- Released
- 2 October 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $85.0M
- Box office
- $71.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →2 major awards won · 3 wins from 4 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | Nicholas Brooks, Joel Hynek, Kevin Mack, and Stuart Robertson | Winner |
| Art Directors Guild 1998 | Excellence in Production Design | Eugenio Zanetti, Jim Dultz, Tomas Voth and Christian Wintter | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1998 | Best Art Direction | Eugenio Zanetti and Cindy Carr | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 1998 | Best Visual Effects | Winner |
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4 awards — What Dreams May Come
×| Best Visual Effects | Nicholas Brooks, Joel Hynek, Kevin Mack, and Stuart Robertson | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Eugenio Zanetti and Cindy Carr | Nominee |
| Excellence in Production Design | Eugenio Zanetti, Jim Dultz, Tomas Voth and Christian Wintter | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | Winner |