Finding Neverland (2004)
Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet star in this film about the creation of Peter Pan that is “inspired” by real events. A struggling play writer befriends a widow and her four sons, their games and adventures end up inspiring a new play we know as Peter Pan.
The film focus on the ideas of imagination, innocence and growing up as the boys deal with having lost their father and their mother's illness. Excellently well made the narrative switches seamlessly between family drama and adventures of the imagination. It is very hard to find anything wrong with this film but what stops it being truly great is that it fails somewhat seriously in it's duty as dramatisation of historical events, it seems that rather large liberties have been taken with history and as such which a very good and thought provoking piece it does feel like history has been cheated in favour of sentimental story telling.
4/5 very worth watching but not to be taken literally.
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