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Neverwas (2005)

Drama | 108 minutes
3,11 254 votes

Genre: Drama / Mystery

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Joshua Michael Stern

Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen and William Hurt

IMDb score: 6,5 (7.051)

Releasedate: 9 September 2005

Neverwas plot

"Every fairy tale needs its hero."

Zach Riley has just graduated in psychiatry and has already landed his first job. He ends up working in a psychiatric institution, the same institution where his father, a writer, spends his last years. Zach comes into contact with a schizophrenic patient who turns out to have a strange connection to one of his father's books.

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Dreiecke

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Quick-smiling and quick-witted boy playing Aaron Eckhart as a psychiatrist, hm...
Intelligent, erudite-speaking man playing Ian McKellen as a schizophrenic, um... (unless he was wrong with something other than schizophrenia) Then another female voice-over somewhere in the beginning, which sounded like a schizophrenic psychiatrist gone off the rails again , well... it's not very true.
Not a very good casting in my opinion. Except Nick Nolte then top actor.
An interesting fact and I also thought the music was very nice, but the images were colored too 'warm' with a lot of red and yellow.

I thought it was a nice 'coming-of-age', at the advanced age of about 40 years, admittedly.
A journey of discovery into descent and who one is (and may be).
Sweet ending. The world in general and that of psychiatry in particular is full of loveliness, colors and bubbles... didn't think so.

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J.Ch.

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  • 717 votes

A very interesting idea, a somewhat disappointing implementation. Especially in the last half hour or so the lines get tied together quite sloppily. Almost overnight, Zach comes to terms with his past, and suddenly it's good that Gabriel stays in his castle. It seems like they ran out of time in the end. In addition, the atmosphere could have been a bit more grim and the images less warm, indeed.

Aaron Eckhart and Brittany Murphey could certainly get through with it. However, it is Ian McKellen who steals the show here, which I expected, but still. He even managed to make me forget Gandalf most of the time, until the end in the castle, when he holds a sword and raises his voice. Thanks to him, this movie still gets 3 ,5 star.

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Roger Thornhill

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Great movie with an incredible cast. The premise is captivating, and the way the film solves the riddles at the end is quite elegant – I was equally concerned that Philip Glass's fairytale music would foreshadow the emergence of some sort of Narnia-esque world that Zach's father magically created, but luckily the writer-director keeps the story within realistic limits. Yet the film never grabbed me as much as it should have been, perhaps because I don't think story elements such as suicide, depression and a psychiatric institution are entirely appropriate for a quest for the truthfulness of a fairy tale. Ian McKellen is perfect, the intrusive music was quite disturbing, and I didn't even recognize Jessica Lange at first – like Faye Dunaway, she didn't have her own face lifted so much as actually got a whole new face fitted, with the indications of her " advanced" age (56!) Immediately all character has disappeared from her face.

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Лучший частный хостинг