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Neverwas is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Joshua Michael Stern released in USA on 9 september 2005 with Ian McKellen
Neverwas (2005)
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Add to a movie listNeverwas is a 2005 Canadian-American fantasy drama film, written and directed by Joshua Michael Stern in his directorial debut. It stars Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, William Hurt, and Jessica Lange. It was first shown at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. However, the movie was never given a full theatrical release, eventually being released straight to DVD in 2007.
Synopsis
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist who leaves a job at a prestigious university to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood, belonging to Dr. Reed (William Hurt). What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), spent many years of his life as he battled chronic depression. T.L. later wrote a popular children's classic, Neverwas, about a child (based on young Zach himself) who enters a secret world to free a captive king. T.L. later committed suicide; Riley, who found the body, has always partly blamed himself for his father's death.Actors
Ian McKellen
(Gabriel Finch)
Aaron Eckhart
(Zach Riley)
Brittany Murphy
(Maggie Blake)
Nick Nolte
(T. L. Pierson)
Jessica Lange
(Katherine Pierson)
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