It stars Kevin Costner as a grieving doctor being contacted by his dead wife through his patients' near-death experiences.

One night, he is awakened when Emily's dragonfly paper weight falls and rolls across the room.

During his near death experience, the boy saw a light, and a woman showing an image of Joe; the cross symbol was what he saw at the end of the rainbow.

When Joe arrives at his home, his parrot goes into a rage, breaking a pot and making the symbol drawn in the spilled soil on the floor.

Joe jumps into the river and enters the semi-flooded bus, causing it to shift and become completely submerged.

Trapped inside, Joe sees a glow fill the bus, and then Emily appears, reaching for his hand.

The events of her final hours flash before him, showing she survived the accident and was pulled to safety by nearby Yanomami villagers.

Perplexed, he follows the native woman into a hut, and inside is a girl in a basket, the child Emily was carrying, who survived the accident.

Some time later, Joe plays with his daughter, now a toddler with wavy blonde hair, the very image of Emily.

The project was initially set up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when the script was bought for a mid six figures outbidding Touchstone.

[4] The script was put into turnaround when MGM grew uncertain of the $75 million dollar budget with Shady Acres Entertainment reacquiring the domestic distribution rights that in turn were acquired by Universal, while Spyglass Entertainment handled foreign pre-sales in a manner similar to the arrangement with The Sixth Sense whose success helped give Dragonfly the traction it needed to move into production.

The consensus reads: "Sappy, dull and muddled, Dragonfly is too melancholic and cliched to generate much suspense.