James Matthew Barrie

Directed by Marc Forster. With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell. The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

Finding Neverland (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Finding Neverland is a 2004 British-American semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster.

Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp attended the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Saturday night and had themselves a little Finding Neverland reunion. 

'Finding Neverland' is the story of a man who doesn't want to grow up, and writes the story of a boy who never does. The boy is Peter Pan, and the man is Sir J.M. Barrie, who wrote his famous play after falling under the spell of a widow and her four young boys. That Barrie was married at the time, that he all but ignored his wife, that he all but moved into the widow's home, that his interest in the boys raised little suspicion, would make this story play very differently today. Johnny Depp's performance makes Barrie not only believable, but acceptable. And he does it without evading the implications of his behavior: The movie doesn't inoculate Barrie as a 'family friend,' but shows him truly and deeply in love with the widow and her boys, although in an asexual way; we wonder, indeed, if this man has ever had sex, or ever wants to.

A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children's classic Peter Pan.

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Interview with cast & director.