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Finding Neverland (8/10)

April 7th, 2005

Finding Neverland is not so much of a biopic of the author of Peter Pan as it is an account of how the story came to be. It basically introduces us to all of the events and situations that inspired the author, James Matthew Barrie (played by Johnny Depp), to write his famous story.

This movie has great acting, especially by Depp and Freddie Highmore, who plays the boy that is Peter’s namesake. Another thing that I kept thinking about while I was watching the movie was how great the timing and tempo of the screenplay was. The story didn’t move too fast or too slow. Maybe I was analyzing it too much, but I’ve never really took notice of that in a movie before. But still, there was something about this movie that didn’t quite put it in my Netflix 5-star category. I can’t put my finger on it, because I liked the movie a lot, but I think it had something to do with not becoming attached to the characters in the movie - specifically Kate Winslet’s character. I’m sure I’m not spoiling anything, because it’s quite apparent in the trailer that she is going to die at the end, but I wasn’t really all that sad when it happened.

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