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Released

1998 · FILM

What Dreams May Come

A grieving pediatrician who dies in a car crash becomes a lingering ghost, torn between haunting his widowed wife—risking to deepen her pain—and letting go to find peace in an imagined heavenly realm.

“After life there is more. The end is just the beginning.”

Directed by

Vincent Ward, Rebecca Greeley

Written by

Richard Matheson, Ron Bass

Rated

MPA · PG-13

Runtime

113 min

DramaFantasyRomance

Streaming on

Synopsis

Chris Nielsen, after dying, finds himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. One thing is missing: his wife. After his death, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 676+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David BrennerShot by Eduardo SerraScored by Michael KamenDesigned by Eugenio ZanettiSound by Patrick Cyccone JrCostumes by Yvonne BlakeStunts by Charles CroughwellVFX by Nicholas Brooks Nm0112172

Box Office

1998 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$71.5M

Budget$85.0M

Worldwide gross$71.5M

break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $55.4M — 77% of worldwide · International: $16.1M (23%)

Opening weekend: $15.8M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $20.3M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,526 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

Hinter dem Horizontde
Hinter Dem Horizont - Das Ende Ist Nur Der Anfangde
Más allá de los sueñoses
Au-delà de nos rêvesfr
Al di là dei sogniit
(Bulgarian)В какво се превръщат мечтите

Release dates around the world4 countries · show

United StatesSep 28, 1998
CanadaOct 2, 1998
AustraliaOct 15, 1998
SwitzerlandNov 20, 1998

Production & Distribution

Production companies

Polygram Filmed Entertainment Interscope Communications Metafilmics

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