Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition)
by Marc Forster
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Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Johnny Depp, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Radha MitchellDirector: Marc Forster
Brand: DEPP,JOHNNY
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Gary Binkow
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Michael Dreyer
Producer: Michelle Sy
Writer: Allan Knee
Writer: David Magee
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Reviews of Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Nice little film, Depp is great
Summary: 3 Stars
But Winslet and Christie are definitely in roles that could have been better written. Winslet exists just to chase kids and get sick, and there must have been more to the relationship between her character and Depp's than that. But it's a nice family film, even if a bit slow for the younger kids.DVD Review: TO SEE WITH THE EYES OF A CHILD
Summary: 5 Stars
Not many movies can encompass fantasy, satire, whimsy, love, allegory, wonder, and sadness with such wit, and clarity, but FINDING NEVERLAND does this, and more. Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, and Freddie Highmore lead a stellar cast in a film that captures the spirit, and wonder of childhood, and the poignancy of adult reflection. This is an experience that needs to be shared.DVD Review: Tender and genuine
Summary: 5 Stars
On the surface - how is it possible for a successful, married playwright to fall in love with a widow with four little boys? But this film shows one of the most tender love stories one can possibly imagine.
We have all grew up hearing the story about Peter Pan. There were numerous movies made about the story too. But how this story came to happen and who inspired it is the true root of this film.
Johnny Depp gives beautiful performance about the young playwright trying to find his own voice. Stifled in unsuccessful marriage and bound by strict social conventions of the time, he and a young widow along with her four little boys form an alliance that is impossible to break. This is a tender story about many forms of love: love for a soulmate and a muse, love of innocence lost in four little boys whose parents die all too soon, love of theatre and storytelling that creates a new kind of reality that is beautiful and generously offered to anyone willing to accept it. This movie is a classic.
DVD Review: Doesn't Fly
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a lushly photographed, but ultimately rather flat film. Although it has a lot of star power, most of its popular actors fail to shine. Dustin Hoffman actually manages to be uninteresting as the long-suffering Producer of James Barrie's plays. Kate Winslet comes off as the somewhat conventional, dreary mother of a host of boys. Only one of these boys is allowed enough screen time to become a distinct character. Julie Christie appears as a one-dimensional harpy for most of the length of the film. Johnny Depp himself seems rather languorously abstracted into the fantasy world he periodically occupies with the boys.
Part of the reason for the actors' failure to give spark to their characters - might be that perennial pressure Directors are now under to maintain pacing. There is a Director's Commentary on this DVD, which is itself somewhat flat, but still probably worth listening to if you have the time. In this Commentary, Marc Forster tells how much of author James Barrie's biography he was compelled to cut in the interests of "keeping things moving." Some of the omissions he alludes to might make viewers wish that, instead of this movie, they had attended a performance of the "Lost Boys" play from which parts of "Finding Neverland" are loosely adapted.
For example, Depp (as Barrie) is seen briefly chatting with a man on the sidelines of a cricket game. The scene will probably completely fail to register with most viewers. But then the Director tells us that this fleeting exchange actually was the ten-second glimpse the film afforded into the abiding friendship between Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes and himself a dedicated researcher into the mostly imaginary worlds beyond the veil. The scene would have been much more interesting if it had been given more time and detail. That's true of so many scenes.
Then the details that the Director did labor to include don't seem to count much. He points out how he would present two subtly different views of a setting or a character's dress. First we see Julie Christie's dress as it really is, Then when we turn back and see it again, it has changed ever so slightly, to reflect Barrie's heightened, imaginative view of it. However these changes are in fact so subtle, that it's doubtful they are registering, even subliminally, on most of us. It might have been more effective, more moving - to just dwell on and flesh out the initial reality of the various scenes.
However, my somewhat dimmer view of the movie might just be a reflection of my lifelong indifference to the story of Peter Pan. As much as I like many of Barrie's other plays and stories, I was always left relatively cold, even as a child, by the play's philosophy - by its longing after the stasis of an eternal youth and by its early pop psychology purveyance of the idea that if you just believe - you can make it true. So the movie's lack of appeal for me might just be the result of the jaundiced view I've taken of the Peter Pan principle in general. Maybe those who really can believe in faeries - will find this a wonderland of a movie.
DVD Review: Finding Neverland Review
Summary: 5 Stars
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Description of Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition)
Award winners Johnny Depp (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL), Kate Winslet (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), Dustin Hoffman, and Julie Christie (TROY, HAMLET) star in this magical tale about one of the world's greatest storytellers and the people who inspired his masterwork "Peter Pan." Well-known playwright James M. Barrie (Depp) finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow (Winslet) and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work! An enchanting big-screen treat with an acclaimed cast of stars, FINDING NEVERLAND has been hailed as one of the year's best motion pictures!Sweetness that doesn't turn saccharine is hard to find these days; Finding Neverland hits the mark. Much credit is due to the actors: Johnny Depp applies his genius for sly whimsy in his portrayal of playwright J. M. Barrie, who finds inspiration for his greatest creation from four lively boys, the sons of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet, who miraculously fuses romantic yearning with common sense). Though the friendship threatens his already dwindling marriage, Barrie spends endless hours with the boys, pretending to be pirates or Indians--and gradually the elements of Peter Pan take shape in his mind. The relationship between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies family sparks both an imagined world and a quiet rebellion against the stuffy forces of respectability, given physical form by Barrie's resentful wife (Radha Mitchell, High Art) and Sylvia's mother (Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller). This gentle silliness could have turned to treacle, but Depp and Winslet--along with newcomer Freddie Highmore as one of the boys--keep their feet on the earth while their eyes gaze into their dreams. Also featuring a comically crusty turn from Dustin Hoffman (who appeared in another Peter Pan-themed movie, Hook) as a long-suffering theater producer. --Bret Fetzer
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