Neverwas

2005 · 1h43 · Film

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern

Starring Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt, Bill Bellamy, Alan Cumming, Vera Farmiga, Michael Moriarty

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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.

Original language

English

Country

Canada, United States

Cast

Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt, Bill Bellamy, Alan Cumming, Vera Farmiga, Michael Moriarty, Ken Roberts, Cynthia Stevenson

Updated October 18, 2026

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