What Dreams May Come DVD 1998 Csodás álmok Jönnek / Directed by Vincent Ward / Starring: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra

UPC 5999542180187

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitle: English, Hungarian

Runtime: 109 minutes

English Summary:

While vacationing in Switzerland, pediatrician Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) meets artist Annie Collins (Annabella Sciorra). They marry and have two children, Ian (Josh Paddock) and Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant). Their idyllic life ends when the children die in a car crash. Four years later, Chris is also killed in a car crash. Unaware that he is dead, and confused that no one will interact with him, Chris lingers on Earth. He sees Annie's attempts to cope with his loss and attempts to communicate with her, despite advice from a presence that this will only cause her more pain. When his attempts cause more sorrow, he decides to move on. Chris awakens in a Heaven that he has created with his imagination; his surroundings are a mountainous landscape that resembles a painting created by his wife, and is similar to a place where the two desired to spend their old age.

Chris is accompanied in Heaven by Albert Lewis (Cuba Gooding Jr.), his friend and mentor from his medical residency, and Leona (Rosalind Chao), a stewardess whom Chris once admired in the presence of his daughter; he later comes to recognize "Leona" as his daughter Marie. Meanwhile, Annie is wracked with guilt for the deaths of Chris and their children, and commits suicide. Chris, who is initially relieved that her suffering is done, grows angry when he learns that those who die by suicide go to Hell; this is not the result of a judgment made against them, but rather their own tendency to create "nightmare" afterlife worlds based on their pain. Chris is adamant that he will rescue Annie from Hell, despite Albert's insistence that no one has ever succeeded in doing so with someone who died by suicide. Aided by a "tracker" (Max von Sydow), Chris and Albert descend into Hell. On the journey there, Chris realizes that "Albert" is truly Ian, and parts ways with him before his search for Annie.

Hungarian Summary:

Chris Nielsen szerelme határtalan felesége iránt. Annie-vel azóta társak, ami- óta meglátták egymást. Egy baleset vétlen áldozataként Chris túllép a földi világon. A mennyország, amelynek immár örökös lakója lett, elszomortja és meg- hökkenti. Túlvilági vezetője segítségével ráébred, ahová jutott a saját menny- országa, saját fantáziája kivetülése. Amit lát, Annie egyik festménye, éppen az, amelyiket a legjobban szeretett. Chris boldog, csodálatosnak tartja ezt a festett világot, hiszen tele van azokkal az emlékekkel, romantikus álmokkal, amelyek Annie-hez fűzték. Ám hamarosan a paradicsomi környezetben sem érzi jól magát imádott felesége nélkül. Annie sem tud szerelme nélkül élni, öngyilkos lesz. Chris megtudja, hogy Annie meghalt, de azt is tudja, hogy nem találkoz- hatnak, mert az öngyilkosok a pokolra kerülnek. Kalandos odisszeába kezd mennyen és poklon át, hogy kiszabadtsa feleségét az alvilágból.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Robin Williams as Dr. Christopher James "Chris" Nielsen
• Cuba Gooding Jr. as Albert Lewis / Ian Nielsen
• Annabella Sciorra as Annie Collins-Nielsen
• Max von Sydow as The Tracker / Albert Lewis
• Jessica Brooks Grant as Marie Nielsen
• Josh Paddock as Ian Nielsen
• Rosalind Chao as Leona / Marie Nielsen
• Lucinda Jenney as Mrs. Jacobs
• Maggie McCarthy as Stacey Jacobs

Additionally, director Werner Herzog has a cameo as one of the Faces of the Damned.