Finding Neverland [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents ; a FilmColony production ; screenplay by David Magee ; produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower ; directed by Marc Forster.
Based upon the play "The man who was Peter Pan" by Allan Knee. Johnny Depp (Sir James Matthew Barrie), Kate Winslet (Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), Julie Christie (Mrs. Emma du Maurier), Radha Mitchell (Mary Ansell Barrie), Dustin Hoffman (Charles Frohman), Kelly MacDonald (Peter Pan), Ian Hart (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Eileen Essell (Mrs. Snow), Paul Whitehouse (Stage Manager), Freddie Highmore (Peter Llewelyn Davies), Joe Prospero (Jack Llewelyn Davies), Nick Roud (George Llewelyn Davies), Luke Spill (Michael Llewelyn Davies). Special features: Feature commentary with director Marc Forster, producer Richard Gladstein and writer David Magee [optional audio feature]; The magic of 'Finding Neverland' [featurette] (16 min.); Creating Neverland [featurette] (3 min.); On the red carpet [featurette] (3 min.); Deleted scenes with optional commentary with director Marc Forster, producer Richard Gladstein and writer David Magee (3 min.); Outtakes (6 min.); Sneak peeks (7 min.).
Contents:
Opening night -- Just a dog -- Developing character -- Go fly a kite -- Adventures of the brothers Davies -- Summer cottage -- More than a chest cold -- Words with Mr. Barrie -- Peter Pan -- Encore performance -- Finding Neverland -- Credits.
Summary:
London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, Sylvia's mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens, Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.
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