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　　讲述26岁的折村花子（松冈茉优 饰），在儿时梦想·电影导演出道前，被卑劣的制片人欺骗而被夺走了企划。处于失意状态的花子，以完全看不懂气氛的男子·馆正夫（窪田正孝 饰）的鼓励为契机，将10年以上音信不通的父亲（佐藤浩市 饰）和两个哥哥（池松壮亮·若叶龙也 饰）卷入其中，开始反击不讲理的社会。

　　故事讲述小男孩Bastian Bux迷上了一本名叫《永不结束的故事》的书，故事将Bastian Bux深深吸引到书本里，甚至让他幻想自己就是其中最重要的角色。而书中描述的幻想国逐渐被“空无”吞噬，女王因为重病无法抵抗“空无”，于是幻想国派出勇者Atreyu寻找拯救女王的药，Bastian Bux就在Atreyu的追寻中体验幻想国的每个地方、认识每个人物，随着Atreyu的欢喜与挫折起伏……
　　幻想国之所以被“空无”吞噬，是因为她是由人类的幻想所创造出来的国度，当人类不再幻想，并忘记那些幻想时，幻想国当然就什么也不剩了。Bastian Bux最后发现幻想国中的人并没有办法拯救他们自己，只有人类才能拯救幻想国，他必须靠着丰沛的想像力，重现幻想国的生机……

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?