Finding Neverland | | Cast : | Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie | | Director : | Marc Forster | | Studio : | Miramax | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 24, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | March 22, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 14, 2005 | | Summary | Mediocre...Not Awful | Content
 | Johnny Depp plays a guy named James Matthew Barrie, who is a guy who writes plays, and not too many people like them. Later in the movie, he is claimed to be Peter Pan. That's really all this movie is about. I just have one question about Peter Pan...why is he always played by a woman?? Answer:I don't know. Maybe it just seems right, but not to me. Basically, this movie had barely anything to do with Neverland. Even though that is the case, there is one scene where Kate Winslet is shown Neverland. That's about it, and they talk a whole lot about stuff like it and James Matthew Barrie was saying to "Believe" at the end. I didn't think this was awful. Only alright. It's worth seeing. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Themes Throughout! | Content
| This movie is one to add to your collection! It tells the amazing story behind the creator of "Peter Pan." The 4 boys that influenced J.M. Barrie and the woman that he fell in love with, all helped him to imagine a story about a boy who would never grow up. It is a truely touching film that will leave you breathless at its end. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslett have incredible chemistry and absolutly makes the story work in the end! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | finding neverland | Content
| at the beginning,it looks boring.Director should inferred about more inspiration of his main character(a imaginate man) and more interesting.I'm impressed ,this movie make me can't imagine what will be the end,it encourage me to follow it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | CD | Content
| The CD is faulty. It plays abour half was through, and then starts over again. I cannot get it to play all the was to the end. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | One of those movies I could watch over and over... | Content
| Finding Neverland is the story of JM Barrie and the four children who helped inspire the story of Peter Pan. The opening credits tell us that the movie is based upon real events, but warn the reader that what occurs in Finding Neverland is actually factual. In fact, there are a lot of historical inaccuracies. Many of them are liberties taken by the screenwriter: Arthur Davies was still alive at the time this story takes place; these events occurred over a period of about 10 years, rather than a few months, as the movie suggests; and there were actually five Davies boys, not four. There's also some artistic license taken with the casting of Barrie; in real life he was only about five feet tall, whereas Johnny Depp is of course much taller. Also an invention were the orphans invited to the opening night of Peter Pan so that they might help get the rest of the audience to get into the premise of the play. Forgive me for making such a crass analogy, but Finding Neverland is rather like the movie Moulin Rouge; one is asked to suspend belief with regards to how true-to-life the movie is. Which neither is.
One must concentrate instead on the message that the movie tries to convey. George, Jack, Peter and Michael meet JM Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and his sheepdog in Kensington Gardens one day while playing make-believe (in real life this event took place when Peter was still in diapers and before Michael and the youngest boy, Nicholas, were even born). JM Barrie, who in real life was unable to connect well with adults, and who was not guilty of the pedophilic accusations directed at him in recent times, spends most of his waking hours playing with the boys, much to the consternation of his wife and the boys' grandmother, played by Julie Christie.
A recent play of Barrie's has been a flop; but, due to the Davies boys, Barrie gets inspiration for his latest venture, Peter Pan. All the boys' names were used for the play: George and Michael for the Darling boys; Jack for a lost boy; and Peter for Peter Pan himself. The real-life Peter is the most sensitive of the Llewellyn-Davies boys; and he is the one Barrie bonds with the most, and the one Barrie encourages to write his own stories. This movie is all about believing- not just in having an imagination, but in believing about yourself as well. There's a downturn in the plot when a major character dies; but for the most part this is a movie with an excellent script and wonderful characters as well as actors. The real story of the Llewellyn-Davies boys is too sad; I'd rather believe the movie version. |
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