Overview

 

This mid-80s children’s epic film was based on a book of the same name. Its author, Michael Ende, said the adaptation was a “gigantic melodrama of kitsch, commerce, plush, and plastic.” He forgot to add it has a sizzling theme song. An outcast schoolboy, Bastian (Barrett Oliver), evades bullies both figuratively and literally inside a bookstore. Advised against reading a massive epic entitled The NeverEnding Story, Bastian steals the book and stows away in an attic to read it, in a device similar to The Princess Bride. Soon, we are immersed in Fantastica as a young boy, Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), quests to save his world against The Nothing with the help of his luckdragon buddy Falkor.

Free for children 12 and under.