The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter reality. It has been adapted into two television films. The novel was nominated for a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, and won the Locus Poll Award for best novel in 1972. It first appeared serialized in the magazine Amazing Stories.

The Lathe of Heaven was a 1979 film (with a release date of 1980) based on the 1971 SF novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin. It was produced in 1979 as part of New York City public television station WNET's Experimental TV Lab project, and directed by David Loxton and Fred Barzyk. Ursula Le Guin, by her own account, was involved in the casting, script planning, re-writing, and filming of this production , which is generally faithful to the novel.

The film stars Bruce Davison as protagonist George Orr, Kevin Conway as Dr. William Haber, and Margaret Avery as lawyer Heather LeLache. Jane Roberts has a cameo role as the grandmother, and was likely cast as a nod to the similarity between the novel's/film's plot and her ideas about dreams.

Lathe of Heaven was a 2002 film based on the SF novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin. It was produced for the A&E network in 2002 and directed by Philip Haas. It starred James Caan, Lukas Haas, and Lisa Bonet. Unlike the 1980 adaptation, it discards a significant portion of the plot, some essential characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book and the original PBS production.

Davison, Bruce, who played George Orr in the 1980 teleplay, acted as executive producer on the 2002 remake.

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results. Written by Will Briggs