2005 · drama · thriller
Neverwas
Directed by Joshua Michael Stern1h 43m2005
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.
Our read: Neverwas (2005) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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- intimate
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