Why it may be worth watching
- Neverwas combines Drama and Thriller elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy.
- Viewers currently rate it 6.4/10 from 145 votes.
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Neverwas
Every fairy tale needs its hero.
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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Cast
Ian McKellenGabriel Finch
Aaron EckhartZach Riley
Brittany MurphyMaggie Blake
Nick NolteT. L. Pierson
Jessica LangeKatherine Pierson
William HurtDr. Peter Reed
Bill BellamyMartin Sands
Alan CummingJake
Vera FarmigaEleanna
Michael MoriartyDick
Ken RobertsTerrence
Cynthia StevensonSally
Lorena GaleJudy
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Best suited to viewers looking for Drama, Thriller.
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schizophreniapsychiatristnovelist
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