The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Awards
- 5 wins & 9 nominations total

Videos13

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The Neverending Story

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The Neverending Story

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The Neverending Story

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Neverending Story: Rock Eater (Blu-Ray)

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Neverending Story: First Gate (Blu-Ray)

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Neverending Story: Morla (Blu-Ray)

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Noah Hathaway

Atreyu

Barret Oliver

Bastian

Tami Stronach

The Childlike Empress

Gerald McRaney

Bastian's Father

Chris Eastman

1st Bully
(as Drum Garrett)

Darryl Cooksey

2nd Bully

Nicholas Gilbert

3rd Bully

Thomas Hill

Carl Conrad Coreander

Deep Roy

Teeny Weeny

Tilo Prückner

Night Hob

Moses Gunn

Cairon

Sydney Bromley

Engywook

Patricia Hayes

Urgl

Beth Anderson

The 2nd Balladeer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Donald Arthur

School's Caretaker
(uncredited)

Willie Coppen

Fantasia Inhabitant
(uncredited)

Bernd Eichinger

Man next to Man Who Drops Milk
(uncredited)

Dee Harris

The Balladeers' Lead Guitarist
(uncredited)

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Trivia
With a budget of 50 million Deutsche Mark (about $27,000,000), this was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany at the time.

Goofs
When Atreyu is in the Swamps of Sadness with his horse, the horse sinks because it gives into the sadness, but Atreyu doesn't sink, even though he is crying and sad that his friend has died. Though not properly shown in the movie, the book explains how AURYN is protecting him. (His eventual near-sinking at the end of the scene, which never occurred in the book, is due to the plot changes that were made for the movie.)

Quotes
Rock Biter: They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were.

Alternate versions
The Warner Bros. Pictures logo and it's closing Saul Bass variant are both plastered with the 1992 variant in the DVD version, and 2003 variant in the Blu-ray version.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: The Neverending Story/The Last Starfighter/Electric Dreams/That Sinking Feeling (1984)

Soundtracks
The Neverending Story
Music by Giorgio Moroder
Lyrics by Keith Forsey
Performed by Limahl Feat. Beth Anderson (uncredited)
Guitar solo Dee Harris (uncredited)
Courtesy of EMI Records, Ltd.

My life changed that autumn afternoon...

The Neverending story is by far the best "Fantasy" film ever made and I doubt that it will ever be topped. I saw this movie with my dad one cold autumn afternoon, and my life changed forever that day. This movie taught me that fantastic places and wonderful creatures really do exist. You only have to want them to. Even today, aged 23, working in the computer industry, I find myself slipping in the Neverending Story soundtrack in my CD player and dreaming away to Fantasia...

This movie the most beautiful and touching movies ever created. It's an example of a timeless story, told with wonderful creatures and dazzling vistas of the land of Fantasia. The amazing and perfect soundtrack help capture your heart and won't let go until the end credits fill the screen. At which time you notice that you've been crying for the last ½ hour. I consider myself extremely lucky that this wonderful movie was shown to me at such a young age, telling me that the world is what you make of it.

And luckily, this September I can watch it all on DVD!!

This is a masterpiece, nothing less