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PLOT SUMMARY: A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination! - An unhappy boy is bullied by older youths and seeks sanctuary in a bookstore. The owner gives him a magic book in which he is able to follow the adventures of a boy who is everything he believe he is not, brave, strong, successful. He begins to understand that he is a part of the story and that the survival of the world about which he has been reading is in part up to him.
ABOUT THE DVD: This is a DUTCH FILMWORKS release for the NETHERLANDS market (Region 2 PAL format, which is the same as in the UK, so it will play without problems on all standard DVD players in the UK and the rest of Europe). The text on the rear of the packaging is in Dutch, and the only subtitles on the DVD are Dutch language (which can be switched off, but there are no English subtitles on the disc). The AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language (with a choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 audiotracks). The film is presented in WIDESCREEN format (16:9 ratio) and runs for a total of 90 minutes.
Neverending Story - Original Movie
Review date: 2008-01-01 Rating: 10 out of 10
EUROPEAN IMPORT ( Remastered Widescreen ) .........removable Dutch subtitles ..............Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it "borrowing" it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible "Nothing" Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the Childlike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.