5. Leona (What Dreams May Come)
Leona is such a rich, complicated character that brings such a great deal to What Dreams May Come. In a movie about the afterlife, Leona's "heaven" represents her feelings and emotions in a way that not many settings can or bother to do in many movies, and her quiet, positive, enlightened yet grounded personality both supports the setting and forms a window into a beautiful, moving character. The movie is one that really takes its time to achieve a very mature, weathered tone, and Leona gives off the energy of a person with many years of emotion behind her with a lot to talk about, and her conversation is about something very deep, a theme that is rarely addressed in such a way. At the same time, she is a supporting player in the movie, but just as much a part of the main protagonist Chris Nielsen's journey as the resolution of her own, whose personal universe is entirely intertwined with Chris's, and it culminates wonderfully with a beautiful moment in a boat.