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| Title |
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Finding
Neverland |
| Cast |
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Johnny Depp, Kate
Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell,
Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore, Joe
Prospero, Nick Roud |
| Producer |
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Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower |
| Director |
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Marc Forster |
| Genre |
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Drama, Adaptation, Period |
| Duration |
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106 mins |
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| It all begins as successful Scottish
playwright J.M. Barrie watches his latest play open
to a ho-hum reaction among the polite society of
Edwardian England. A literary genius of his times
but bored by the same old themes, Barrie is clearly
in need of some serious inspiration. Unexpectedly,
he finds it one day during his daily walk with his
St. Bernard Porthos in London’s Kensington
Gardens. There, Barrie encounters the Llewelyn Davies
family: four fatherless boys and their beautiful,
recently widowed mother. Despite the disapproval
of the boys’ steely grandmother Emma du Maurier
and the resentment of his own wife, Barrie befriends
the family, engaging the boys in tricks, disguises,
games and sheer mischief, creating play-worlds of
castles and kings, cowboys and Indians, pirates
and castaways. He transforms hillsides into galleon
ships, sticks into mighty swords, kites into enchanted
fairies and the Llewelyn Davies boys into “The
Lost Boys of Neverland.” From the sheer
thrills and adventurousness of childhood will come
Barrie’s most daring and renowned masterwork,
“Peter Pan.”
At first, his theatrical company is skeptical. While
his loyal producer Charles Frohman worries he’ll
lose his shirt on this children’s fantasy,
Barrie begins rehearsals only to shock his actors
with such unprecedented requests as asking them
to fly across the stage, talk to fairies made out
of light and don dog and crocodile costumes. Then,
just as Barrie is ready to introduce the world to
“Peter Pan,”
a tragic twist of fate will make the writer and
those he loves most understand just what it means
to really believe. |
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