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Plot:
A well-educated psychiatrist (Eckhart) leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father (Nolte), a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his pos...( read more 
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MCT:August 27, 2008Excellente histoire! J'ai bcq aimé le film... McKellen est magnifique dans son rôle. Seul la fin que j'ai trouvé tiré par les cheveux.
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MCT:July 30, 2008
Visions and borrowed sentiments scrolled down from the past can lead you to a unpenetrable self-seclusion.
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MCT:July 22, 2008
A surpriseing little movie that was done really well. The story was really good and the acting also.
I had passed this up many times thinking it would be just another fantasy but it's more then that. HArdly any fantasy in it at all but one you'll have to watch to judge for yourself.
Mckellen does a very good job in this and the supporting cast helps with everything.
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MCT:July 11, 2008
I love this movie. It was a bit vague and confusing at first but it really does bring good mystery. A book that is based on unknown real life events and places and to discover that they are real. Wow! That must have been something. In the end the reality might not be as grand as the story but the only thing that matters is that it is real.
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MCT:June 1, 2008A great film that you cannot possibly put into any genre. This movie is very well worth your time! I guarantee it!
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MCT:May 29, 2008I went into this expecting something a little more whimsical. The description made it sound like a fantasy movie. It was a smidge more depressing. Mostly what I took away from the experience is that Ian McKellen was crazy, Nick Nolte loved to yell, and Aaron Eckhart is one heck of a crier. Not horrible, but not very captivating either.
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MCT:April 27, 2008The dark doppelganger of Spiderwick Chronicles, this film could easily be the other half of the aforementioned. I could see both films as the alternate side of a ying and yang coin. First the title and name of the magical world, Neverwas, notice even the name of the world is even metaphorically alluding to the reality or non reality of the realm. Is it real, or is it merely the conjurings of a dillusional man (Ian McKellen) wanting a bit of magic in the this dull world. This film is even complete with the scribblings of the book, colorful illustrations, bits of feathers and fairies, maps of the forests, etc. The high contrast color palatte is also rich, but the subject matter is definately the darker and more "real world" based look at the phsychology of Neverwas's creator. However, this film's premise falls flat towards the end. Aaron Eckhart's charcter was trying to discover more of why his father went mad, and that is never really fully explained. This film could have been a bit better, but maybe we just prefer the wonder and joy of the happier alter ego, Spiderwick, than to this sullen and flat forgotten brother.
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MCT:March 7, 2008
I wanted to love this film, but it falls just short. spectacular visuals and Brittany Murphy was not bad. Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange both play their parts just at and not over dramatic. All in all ~worth a view .
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MCT:January 25, 2008
I just wish they would have dove further into the magic of Neverwas. Good film, but it needed a little more.
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MCT:January 4, 2008
I found this movie one that challenges our concepts of what is acceptable normal behavior and the fine line between fact and fiction... Reminded me of what my college Professor use to ask at the beginning of each class.." Do you know what normal is? Are you sure? Really sure? Where do we draw the line on what to believe and not? Just because we have not experienced something, does that make it any less real for the person who claims they have?".. Neverwas attacks these issues and shatters the status quo surprisingly well.
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MCT:December 29, 2007This is a wonderfully magical fairytale starring Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, William Hurt, and Nick Nolte. Eckhart plays, Zach Riley, a psychiatrist that has come back to his hometown to work in the local mental hospital. The same institution his father, a famous children's book author, played by Nick Nolte had spent a short time prior to his death. Here he encounters someone (McKellen)who will help him confront his past with the help of a childhood friend played by Murphy.
This is such an amazing story. It kept me on the edge of my bed the whole time. I was always excited tosee what would come next. The music score was beautiful. It helped set the mood so wonderfully. As always McKellen added so much to the character Gabriel. Eckhart played well with him at his side. I wish there were more developement between he and Murphy's characters, but I don't guess it was nessecary.
Bottom line, I loved this movie. Its another great fairytale for grown ups. I want to buy it for my collection. -
MCT:October 25, 2007
This was an unusual film...could have been a complex mess, but was instead as easy and enjoyable to follow as the child's tale it profiles. Ian McKellen was magnificent!!
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MCT:October 15, 2007
Slow beginnings but so worth hanging in there for. Ian McKellen is just so wonderful. Interesting story & beautifully done.
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MCT:October 10, 2007
Amazing that so many big names were in this, considerin its really not a saleable movie, what with its difficult theme and strange direction. The acting was top notch and so was Philip Glass' piano score but in the end the delivery of the scenes were only great conceptually, and perhaps separately.
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MCT:September 5, 2007
Don't be fooled by the box art, this is not a fairy tale or a kids movie. It is however a trite and nauseating film, with a very shallow look at mental illness at its core.
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MCT:September 4, 2007The title to this one should be Neverwatch!
Convoluted and extremely laborious to follow. I kept waiting for something significant to happen but it just drug on and on with puzzles that could have been solved quickly and easily.
Was this supposed to be about mental illness or fairy tales? The amalgamation of the two together just didn't work for me.
I had to stay up late to watch another better movie, to get the bad taste out of my brain from watching this one! -
MCT:August 30, 2007
The conflict/question the movie initially presents - right up until the final revelations - is what is real. The viewer is led to believe there might actually be a Neverwas. This is necessary because we need to see the world from Gabriel's eyes; and to do this we must accept him with condescension. Were we to simply see him as schizophrenic, we might feel sympathy for him, but we would never empathize with him or truly understand his needs. Ian McKellan and Aaron Eckhart both give strong performances easily pulling off the emotionalism needed for the movie, and throwing in enough humor to keep you interested. Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt, and Brittany Murphy all pull off great supporting roles without overshadowing the main actors. Alan Cumming, although his role is small, really pulls at the heart strings with his portrayal of a patient of the institution. I really enjoyed the fantasy vs. real life theme of the film. I think we all could use a Neverwas to escape to once in awhile.
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MCT:August 16, 2007
This is one of my new favorites! Great cast and great story. Everything came together well and left me wishing there were more films like it. Nolte and McKellen were swell. And this movie was amazingly clean. (something I imagine effected its popularity...)
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MCT:August 12, 2007
I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I got this movie. I had never heard of it. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. It is very interesting.
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MCT:August 10, 2007
This movie is really really good.It's really kind of hard to say who did the best job acting in this movie. Ian McKellen and Nick Nolte probably did the best acting but on the other hand Aaron Eckhart and Brittany Murphy did a fantastic job too.
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MCT:June 24, 2007
The Good, The Bad The Ugly! The Good Script, The Bad Directing, The Ugly Over Acting (with one surprising exception: a reliable and lovely Brittany Murphy)! One of the best justifications for the success of HP and its imitations! One of the best statements about the necessity of hope in the age of depression and alienation!
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MCT:June 21, 2007I started watching it one night and I fell asleep since it was about 3 or 4 in the morning. I really want to see it!!
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MCT:May 13, 2007
Strange film that can make yourevise all the principles of thinking. Why not live your dreams on and actualize them back!
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MCT:March 4, 2007
Sweet story, Psychologists should watch. Also Ian McKellen's performance is worth to see, he's great, so as Brittany Muprhy. I really like this feel good style which has the background on a fairy tale. A sweet and warm movie.
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