The NeverEnding Story
1984 · 102 min · Not rated · 7.4/10 on IMDb
adventure, drama, family, fantasy
Bastian (Barrett Oliver), a lonely schoolboy alienated from his father and bullied by his classmates, retreats to an attic where he becomes engrossed in a book entitled THE NEVERENDING STORY. It is the tale of a magical kingdom appropriately named Fantasia, since it is a world born of human fantasies. However, as humanity loses faith in the power of imagination, the once-thriving Fantasia is being destroyed by great storms of Nothingness. Dangerously ill herself, Fantasia's youthful empress (Tami Stronach) sends the young warrior Atreju (Noah Hathaway) on a quest to find a cure for the kingdom. After encountering flying dragons, swamp monsters and a vast assortment of other strange creatures, the young hero discovers that only a human boy can save Fantasia, at which point Bastian is drawn, literally, into the pages of the story.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen, Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, Deep Roy, Patricia Hayes, Thomas Hill, Sydney Bromley, Chris Eastman
West Germany, USA
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Atlantic-04, Atlantic-12
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- BLU-RAY