Finding Neverland Reviews

Set in 1900 London, this a wonderful story (not totally true!) about James Barrie (Johnny Depp) a struggling playwright and (struggling even more) husband.

Barrie is troubled by his lack of professional and personal successes and heads to the park one day for inspiration. There, he finds four boys and their widowed mother (Kate Winslet). He then spends the rest of his days playing with the boys, avoiding adult responsibilities and tapping into his inner child. The community is in an uproar about his antics-- especially his wife.

It is his relationship with the four children as well as his friendship...

This is such a great movie for the whole family, and Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet are fantastic actors throughout. They couldn't have picked better children to play the little boys in the movie. It was such a great idea to have the movie based around the Peter Pan concept but from a completely different standpoint that we didn't expect. It gave us a whole new understanding about how the tale was written (i've heard it's based on a true story) and provided a great basis for a movie. The few times I've seen it I've cried each time, it was so moving. So, if you are a crier like me, be forewarned!...

Finding Neverland was one of those movies that you were not certain would be good and when it was good, it was one of those movies that would become treasured. Johnny Depp was amazing good as the author who would come to write about Peter Pan. It was also nice to see Kate Winslet as a mother with two children who would come to fall in love with Barre.

Barre is a man who is bored by what he has been writing. He has an active imagination and wants to use it, despite the way that polite society would react to it. He is an intelligent man who wishes for more to inspire him in his work. He gets what...

I read the back of the DVD case, and knew I had to buy this movie. I was impressed with the whole story line. J.M. Barrie was a great play-write, and this was his best play- Peter Pan. It reminds us that men do think like children and it takes a real man to make us women realize we too still have childish imaginations, we just have to find them.

The Davies boys were such a huge part in the making of Peter Pan, and their ailing mother helped Mr. Barrie show all of them Neverland and whats it like not to grow up. I think one of the most compelling parts is when James Barrie realizes the oldest boy's...

 This is one of the best movies I have ever watched! I have this movie and have watched it numerous times. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet are magical together without their ever being a sexual scene. They were both so very good in this movie as was Freddie Hightower....what an exceptional little actor he is. The story is fun and entertaining. I must admit the ending was not what I would have liked, but very believeable. Dustin Hoffman was something else....he played his part GREAT!