Just wanted to add: "Neverwas" to the list....... after watching it the other night for what must have been my 4th time in two years.

NEVERWAS

Based on the story of a well-educated psychiatrist who leaves a highly academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book (and) while still trying to cope with his own childhood issue surrounding his fathers death thru suicide he encounters a schizophrenic patient who helps him discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.

Patient Played by: Ian McKellen - from The Lord of Rings - as Gandalf