So, now you know the song, lets all sing along.
Plot: Kid gets bullied at school, runs away to the book shop (as you would when you're an 8 year old boy), finds a book, the old man who runs the shop tells him he can't have it, kid nicks the book and high tails it to the dark and dusty attic of his high school to read it. Inside said book is another world, this world, as he reads it comes to life. It's got rock giants, sphinxes, big talking turtles, pointy nosed little folk, a scary wolf (I had nightmares over this thing for years-wimp, I know) and a Luck Dragon (wish on him him and it comes true).
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (das boot, Air Force One) and starring nobody of note, this film sadly failed to recoup it's budget, like so many eventual cult films.
Budget: $27,000,000
Gross: $20,158,808
Fun Fact: The film is adapted from a German book by Michael Ende, published in 1979 and went on to spawn two sequels. Ende believed that the content of the film was so far removed from that of the novel, he had his name removed from the credits.
The theme song got to number 4 in the UK singles chart in 1984 (nice).
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