Finding Neverland (2004)

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago at Apr 16 1:11

Johnny Depp & Kate Winslet solidly anchor this fairy tale-ish depiction behind the process of a fairy tale.
Finding Neverland starts off as a story of a man who's refusal to grow up results in the fantasy based chapters of his stage production & ends with a boy who is forced to grow up by the grim reality of the loss of a loved one.
The end is truly moving & successfully endearing enough to mask the pixie-like liberties taken with any historical fact of this story of the man who founded the Lost Boys.






Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago at Dec 19 16:20

I wonder how many people who saw the movie have actually read or re-read Peter Pan while they were adults and how many of them have known anything about the real life of J. M. Barrie before the movie. I'm not an expert on Barrie, but I do know a bit about him and had to re-read Peter Pan for my Children's Lit class, so I can tell you the film version of Barrie and Peter Pan is mostly imaginary. What irks me mostly about the movie is its inaccurate portrayal of historically real persons and real events and yet it presents itself to be semi-biographical (for a very nice article on Barrie and Peter Pan, go here: "Lost Boys"). This Disney-esq version of Barrie's life and the birth of Peter Pan is also full of corny sentimentalism and predictable clichés. It's a tear-jerker all right, but the ...Read more

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Sep 18 0:55

I absolutely love it. Not just for Johnhy Depp, but for this amazing story. I think I cried, but at the end i was left smiling, because this movie is truly great and should be seen by all..

Rating : 9/10