<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/vEiV3I2dO7dnX8JyzjAlHaJ9OXA.jpg" title='Tales from the Neverending Story: The Beginning' alt='Tales from the Neverending Story: The Beginning'/> </figure> <h1>Tales from the Neverending Story: The Beginning</h1> <p>The sudden death of Bastian Bux's mother leads the twelve-year old boy to seek solace in his imagination. Inspired by a magical book given to him by an eccentric bookseller named Carl Coreander, Bastian comes in contact with an enchanted world called Fantasia, where his alter ego Atreyu is sent on a magical quest to save the Childlike Empress. But malevolent forces of conformity and emptiness threaten Fantasia's very existence. Xayide, the Dark Princess, strives to attain supreme power by sending a werewolf shape-shifter into Bastian's world to try to stop the boy from reading "The Neverending Story." As Atreyu battles the Dark Forces in Fantasia, Bastian realizes he must battle a demonic substitute teacher in his very own school.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 95</summary> <summary>Release date: 2001-10-06</summary></details> </article>