Neverwas 2005 123movies

Watch: Neverwas 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story..
Plot: Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. 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, spent many years of his life.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 6,824
	14% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 105 Popularity: 8.954 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Great Emotional Fairy Tale
When I read some of the negative comments here I almost didn’t watch the movie; Now I’m glad I did!

I love movies where you are drawn into the story and feel like you are actually there the whole time. I felt like that the whole duration of the movie and forgot everything else for a short period of time.

The whole fairy tale versus the real-life (sad) story is wonderfully written and works in every way.

Maybe it’s because I experienced the same thing with my father, as Zach does, when I was young, but the emotions that Zach goes through are very real and really made me think. Missing someone so much, feeling guilty, problems sleeping, are all things I’m familiar with. And It’s good to feel that you’re not the only one with these kind of emotions.

The acting is fantastic, involved and emotional.

The whole “autumn feel” cinematography and melancholic music sets a great mood.

Neverwas touched me.

I suggest you watch it if you believe just a little bit in fairy tales and want to see something different than most productions coming out from major studios at the moment.

A challenging movie that rewards the thoughtful viewer
There is absolutely no way to discuss this movie without revealing some aspects of it. On the other hand, this is not a movie that relies on the ending, but one illuminated by it. Like “Sixth Sense”, this is a movie that means more on the second viewing.

So, I will give away part of the basic structure of the movie. If you already plan on seeing the movie, there is no reason to continue. If not, you might as well read ahead; it might change your mind.

SPOILER WARNING! For us the viewers, the story starts in the middle. Zach, son of a the famous author of the children’s book “Neverwas” quits a position as a psychiatrist at a prominent college to go to a nobody’s-heard-of-it institution in the community where he grew up. Zach (we learn quickly) is tormented by the suicide of this father. Like most suicide relatives, he both blames his father and himself. He has divorced himself from the fantastical world of his father’s book, from all fantasy at all, from all remuneration from his father’s highly successful book. For Zachary, reality is survival.

He meets a delusional paranoid schizophrenic named Gabriel. What we don’t get told about Gabriel until the end of the movie is his nightmarish existence as a little boy: being locked up, abused. Gabriel survived this by creating a world of his own, Neverwas. Neverwas is a world of hope and peace, a world inhabited by fairies and in which Gabriel is the benign king.

Gabriel and Zach’s father meet in the mental institution. Gabriel is there for his delusions, Zach’s father for his bipolar-ism. The father and Gabriel become friends. Zach’s father offers his belief in Neverwas. In fact, he takes Gabriel’s world and turns it into his story. As each go in and out of institutions, they maintain a correspond of affection and support.

Gabriel’s Neverwas is on land that ultimately Zach’s father purchases for him. Unfortunately, the father is not able to care for Gabriel or provide him long term security. His depressions win out and he commits suicide.

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.

Unfortunately, this will lead many viewers to think this is another fantasy come true; and they will be disappointed by the “truth.” However, the truths that do come out are beautiful and moving; and there is certainly the fantasy of a “happy ending”, more than one has a right to expect from reality.

The true story here is how people change: How Zach comes to see the need for fantasy, to forgive his father and himself; how Gabriel out of desperation has his one moment of cold reality in which he can articulate his need for Neverwas.

And the movie has its moments of humor and insight and romance.

For anyone willing to think and be moved, I recommend this movie highly.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 11246
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director Joshua Michael Stern
Writer Joshua Michael Stern
Actors Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy
Country Canada
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory iO Film, North Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)