What Dreams May Come (1998)

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Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Oct 2, 1998

Running Time: 113 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Jessica Brooks Grant, Josh Paddock, Rosalind Chao, Lucinda Jenney, Maggie McCarthy, Wilma Bonet

director: Vincent Ward, Charles Croughwell

Chris and Annie Nielsen's children are both killed, and then a few years later Chris himself dies in an accident. Chris goes to heaven, a place built of his imagination, and the paintings he loved in life. He discovers from an angel that Annie has committed suicide, as she is bereft without her family. Chris determines to search for her, but as he has gone to heaven and she to hell, he must endure great hardships to find her.

December 8, 2000

What Dreams May Come

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How can a film look so radiant and be so hollow? Ask screenwriter Ron Bass, who has adapted Richard Matheson's novel about love after death into a skin-crawling nightmare of New Age cliches. Robin Williams plays a good doc who dies in a car wreck. His distraught wife (Annabella Sciorra) kills herself, which leaves her in hell and him in heaven trying to find her with the help of an afterlife guide (Cuba Gooding Jr.). Director Vincent Ward, who handled myth with…