This is the kind of movie where a madwoman's outburst leads her to throw a mug that just happens to be filled with gold sparkles -- which can then be photographed cascading down on all the adorable loonies, in slow-motion.
Neverwas
Every fairy tale needs its hero.
2005 · 1h 43m · PG-13
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Joshua Michael Stern
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Joshua Michael Stern Director
- Ian McKellen as Gabriel Finch
- Aaron Eckhart as Zach Riley
- Brittany Murphy as Maggie Blake
- Nick Nolte as T. L. Pierson
- Jessica Lange as Katherine Pierson
- William Hurt as Dr. Peter Reed
- Bill Bellamy as Martin Sands
- Alan Cumming as Jake
- Vera Farmiga as Eleanna
- Michael Moriarty as Dick
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