The Neverending Story (1984)

Genre: Adventure; Family; Fantasy

Studio: Warner Bros.

Cast: Moses Gunn as Cairon; Gerald McRaney as Barney Bux; Barret Oliver as Bastian Bux; Noah Hathaway as Atreyu; Sydney Bromley as Engywook; Thomas Hill as Koreander; Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny; Tilo Prückner as Night Hob; Drum Garrett as 1st Bully; Darryl Cooksey

Color

Langauge: English

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Producer: Bernd Eichinger; Mark Damon

Writer: Wolfgang Petersen; Michael Ende; Herman Weigel

Bastian (Barret Oliver) is a lonely boy who loves to read. His mother is dead and his father (Gerald McRaney) is oblivious to his son’s need for quality time. While escaping some bullies, he stumbles into a bookstore. The shopkeeper tells him that the particular book he’s eyeing isn’t for him. Too involved. Bastian “borrows” it anyway, leaving an IOU in it’s place. He heads for school but he’s already late. So he heads up to the school’s spooky attic to read. The story in the book is about a place called Fantasia. Something is destroying it. A hero is needed to save Fantasia. The Child Like Empress (Tami Stronach) selects Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), a warrior from the Plains. As Bastian reads about Atreyu’s adventure, he becomes more involved with the story than he expects.

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