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The NeverEnding Story

1984 · Movie · 94 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer84%as of 2026-01-15
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic49/100as of 2026-01-15

What it is

The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film, co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, based on the first half of the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It was produced by Bernd Eichinger and Dieter Geissler, and stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney and Moses Gunn, with Alan Oppenheimer providing the voices of Falkor, Gmork, and others.

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Genres
Fantasy / Drama
Original language
English

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