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What Dreams May ComeWhat Dreams May Come is a 1998 drama film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Annabella Sciorra. Max von Sydow also appears. The movie is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. The film was released by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Characters Robin Williams plays Chris, a pediatrician. Annabella Sciorra plays his wife Annie, who runs an art gallery. They have two school-age children (Ian and Marie), a housekeeper (Angie) and a dog (Katie). Cuba Gooding plays Albert, a character who proves to be more complex than we are initially led to believe. Plot Summary When Chris's son and daughter are killed in a car accident, Annie becomes mentally unstable. He helps her over the rough spots the best he can, but when he also is killed in a car accident, she attempts suicide and enters a mental hospital. Chris experiences life after death, although it takes him a while to accept that it's more than a dream. A handsome black man (played by Cuba Gooding) guides him through his grief and confusion, and then shows him the beauty of the heavenly realm. At first, Chris thinks it's his friend and mentor from his medical residency, but later on we find out it's someone else who borrowed his mentor's form. After getting adjusted to the spirit world, Chris meets a beautiful Asian woman who shows him a children's realm in heaven. Gradually, she reveals that she is his dead daughter and explains that she took the form of a stewardess because her father admired her special beauty. On earth, the young girl was tom-boyish and rather homely. Next, the black spirit man returns to Chris and breaks the bad news that Annie killed herself. At first Chris is happy, thinking that his wife is now free from her emotional pain on earth and that he can soon meet her in the spirit world. His hope quickly turns to anger when he is told of the heavenly law that "Suicides go to hell." Chris forms a bold resolve: he will go down into hell and rescue his wife. Cuba Gooding tries to talk him out of it, because no one has ever been able to do this before. But Chris is undaunted and dogged in his determination, and higher-ups authorize Cuba to find Chris a tracker. (Very appropriately played by Max von Sydow.) They descend into hell, passing through various ghastly scenes. The hardest problem is finding out where Annie is. They look in a number of places, some of which are dangerous. Finally, when Chris is having trouble concentrating on Annie (being distracted by thoughts of his son), the handsome black spirit man reveals the truth: he's Chris's son, and he just borrowed that form (like his daughter borrowing the stewardess's form). He then cheers on his father: "Don't listen to anything but find mom and bring her back!" In the topsy-turvy ruins of hell we find Chris's wife in what appears to be her home. She doesn't recognize Chris, and she shyly explains that they've been having "problems with water pressure in the neighborhood" and the electricity has gone out. External links
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