Plot
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist who leaves a job at a prestigious university to take up a position at the privately run mental institution, Millwood, belonging to Dr. Reed. 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 as he battled chronic depression. T.L. later wrote a popular children's classic, Neverwas, about a child (based on young Zach himself) who enters a secret world to free a captive king. T.L. later committed suicide; Riley, who found the body, has always partly blamed himself for his father's death.
Riley is assigned to work with a schizophrenic patient, Gabriel Finch, and soon realizes that Finch sees himself as the captive king. As he listens to Finch and resumes his acquaintance with childhood friend Maggie Paige, he realizes that more things link him to the book – and also to Finch's recovery – than he ever thought. T.L.'s novel was based on Finch's stories, told to him by Finch while both were patients in the hospital. Finch believes that the book is a sort of oracle confirming his personal reality, and that Riley is the boy hero. Riley comes to see himself this way in a sense, as he discovers that Finch's "hallucination" concerns actual places and events. [1] [2] [3]
The film's U.S. DVD from Miramax Home Entertainment was released on July 3, 2007. [4]
In December 2010, Miramax was sold by The Walt Disney Company, their owners since 1993. That same month, the studio was taken over by private equity firm Filmyard Holdings. [8] Filmyard licensed the home media rights for several Miramax titles to Echo Bridge Entertainment, and on February 14, 2012, Echo Bridge reissued Neverwas on DVD. [9] It was one of the more recent Miramax films to be reissued by Echo Bridge, as the initial home video release had only occurred four year prior. In 2011, Filmyard Holdings licensed the Miramax library to streamer Netflix. This deal included Neverwas, and ran for five years, eventually ending on June 1, 2016. [10]
Filmyard Holdings sold Miramax to Qatari company beIN Media Group during March 2016. [11] In April 2020, ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Skydance) acquired the rights to Miramax's library, after buying a 49% stake in the studio from beIN. [12] Neverwas was one of the 700 titles they acquired in the deal, and since April 2020, the film has been distributed by Paramount Pictures. [13] On March 4, 2021, Neverwas was made available on Paramount's new streaming service Paramount+, as one of its inaugural launch titles. [14] [15]
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