This is the only movie about hell to win an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects merely for how vividly it depicted the underworld. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a pediatrician who dies in a car accident and finds himself in heaven.
But shortly after his death, his wife (Annabella Sciorra) commits suicide and is sent to hell. Chris makes it is mission to descend into hell and rescue his wife. In one unforgettable scene, he walks across a giant plain of disembodied faces as they scream at him to stop. Throughout the film, the line between hell as a place and hell as a state of mind becomes blurred beyond recognition. The film was based on a novel by Richard Matheson.
