I watched this last night. It's worth watching.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/

I haven't seen "Lovely Bones," which generally got trashed in the review site, Rotten Tomatoes. But I have seen "What Dreams May Come."  If you asked me to rate the movie which at its best is fabulous and at its worst is dreadful, this would be my choice.   Positives: The ignition of Robin Williams' romance on the river near Switzerland was idyllic and hauntingly poetic.  His reflections after the deaths of his children about the Dad he wished he had been struck me as deeply moving.    

Negatives: The device of switching identities in heaven didn't work for me.  Paradise (the Park) as portrayed here seemed dull and cliched, though I liked the special effects that portrayed the grass as like paint.  For me, the ending was dreadful--far too cheesy and the major reason why I would never show this movie in our church's monthly potluck dinner and "spiritual" movie nights.  [Our last movie was "Places in the Heart"]

That said, the part where Max Von Sidow reluctantly helps Robin Williams track down his wife in Hell after her suicide is one of the most beautiful movie segments I have ever seen.  The movie is worth seeing just for the poignancy of that segment. If soul retrievals area real, then that segment is imo the most likely portrayal of retrievals ever put on screen.
Pauli, with his Hell fixation, would just love it     

Don