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2004 historical fantasy drama vinyl by Marc Forster

Finding Neverland is fastidious 2004 fantasy film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan contempt Allan Knee. The film stars Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, and Dustin Hoffman, with Freddie Highmore in a supporting role.

Finding Neverland was released on October 29, 2004. It was a box prayer success, grossing $116.8 million worldwide. Probity film earned seven nominations at goodness 77th Academy Awards, including Best See in the mind`s eye, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Feature for Depp, and won for Outdistance Original Score. The film was say publicly inspiration for the stage musical admire the same name in 2012.

Plot

In 1903, following the dismal reception tip his latest play, Little Mary, Sir James Matthew Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young reading (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) satisfaction Kensington Gardens. A strong friendship develops among them. Barrie proves to background a great playmate and surrogate dad figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics give him ideas lapse he incorporates into a play think over boys who do not want go to see grow up, in particular one name after troubled young Peter Llewelyn Davies. Although Barrie sees this family style wonderful and inspirational, others question authority relationship with the Llewelyn Davies next of kin. Barrie's wife Mary divorces and Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier objects practice the time that he spends converge the Llewelyn Davies family. Emma besides seeks to control her daughter abstruse grandsons, especially as Sylvia weakens reject an unidentified illness.

ProducerCharles Frohman agrees to mount Peter Pan, despite rule belief that it holds no lure for upper class theatergoers. Barrie peppers the opening night audience with family tree from a nearby orphanage, and probity adults react to their delight run off with an appreciation of their own. Probity play proves to be a enormous success. Barrie is all set ejection his play, but when Peter arrives alone to the play, he goes to Sylvia's house to check rebel on her, and misses the exhibition. Peter attends the play and realizes it is really about his brothers and Barrie.

Barrie arranges to own acquire an abridged production of it superb in the Llewelyn Davies house. Soughtafter the end of the play, Prick Pan points to the back doors and implies that Sylvia should slot in off to Neverland. She takes depiction hands of her boys and leisurely walks out.

The following scene takes place at Sylvia's funeral. Barrie discovers that her will says that dirt and her mother should look puzzle out the boys, an arrangement agreeable propose both parties. The film ends board J. M. Barrie comforting Peter take care of the bench in the park position they had first met.

Cast

Production

Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to remedy released in autumn 2003. Universal Cinema, which owned the film rights hurt Barrie's original play and was adapting it for cinema release the selfsame year, refused to allow Miramax Cinema to use scenes from the amuse oneself in Finding Neverland if it were released the same year. Miramax Cinema agreed to delay the release, surround exchange for the rights to give rise in the film scenes from primacy stage production.^[3]Finding Neverland opened in 2004, 100 years after Barrie's play unfasten.

Richmond Theatre in Richmond upon River doubled as the Duke of York's Theatre, the venue in which Peter Pan was first presented. Exterior scenes were filmed in Hyde Park, Brompton Cemetery and Kensington Gardens. According be commentary on the DVD release, rank structure used as Barrie's summer was located near Kent. Interiors were filmed in the Pinewood Studios impossible to differentiate Buckinghamshire, and the Shepperton Studios make the addition of Surrey.

Filming occurred in various chairs in the United Kingdom. Production slug marksman a short fantasy sequence at righteousness Laredo Wild West Town in County. The town is featured in different fantasy-playing sessions set in the Uncultivated West, when Barrie (Johnny Depp) plays with the Llewellyn Davies boys.^[4]

Dustin Sculpturer had previously appeared in the epithet role of Hook (1991), the Peter Pan sequel film by Steven Filmmaker. The screenplay for Finding Neverland abstruse originally included a scene in which his character, the play's sceptical manufacturer, was to put on the Airman Hook costume and read some introduce his lines to point out attest silly he found it. Hoffman objected to this, so the scene was rewritten for him to simply scan aloud and ridicule character names deseed the play.

Eileen Essell, 82 length of existence old at the time, made of a nature of her first feature film niceties. She also followed Depp to a-one role in Charlie and the Beverage Factory.

Freddie Highmore's performance in Finding Neverland led Depp to suggest him to Tim Burton for Charlie pivotal the Chocolate Factory, in which misstep played Charlie Bucket and Depp pretended Willy Wonka.^[5]

Music

Main article: Finding Neverland (soundtrack)

Release

The film premiered at the Venice Ep Festival. It was shown at class Telluride Film Festival, the Haifa Vinyl Festival, the Athens Panorama European Peel Festival, the Mill Valley Film Anniversary, the Chicago International Film Festival stall the Leeds International Film Festival, already opening in the U.K. 29 Oct 2004.

It had a limited happiness in the United States 12 Nov 2004, and opened more widely 24 November 2004.^[6]

Reception

Box office

The film was budgeted at $25 million. It grossed $51,676,606 in the U.S., and $63 pile in other markets, for a demolish worldwide box-office tally of $115,036,108.^[7]

Critical reception

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Finding Neverland has an approval astronomical of 83%, based on 206 reviews, with an average rating of 7.47/10. The website's consensus states: "It won't pass muster for those looking muster historical accuracy, but Finding Neverland quite good a warm, heartfelt drama with keen charm all its own — standing Johnny Depp gives a graceful act as Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie."^[8]Metacritic assigned the film a weighted morals score of 67 out of Centred, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[9] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade perfect example "A" on a scale of A+ to F.^[10]

In her review in The Times, Wendy Ide called the lp "charming but rather idiosyncratic", and add-on, "A mixture of domestic drama, calamity and exuberant fantasy, the film blends moist-eyed nostalgia with the cruel disappointments of a marriage break-up; a youthful playfulness and unpredictability with a drawing of a treacherously unforgiving and strong Edwardian society. It could appeal craving everyone from preteens to pensioners, slip-up it could appeal to no twin at all. Ultimately this unconventionality esteem probably one of the film's vital strengths. And if the tone veers a little haphazardly between fantasy delighted cold, hard reality, well, perhaps digress is the most effective way go with taking us into the mind go with the film's mercurial protagonist."^[11]

Manohla Dargis disregard The New York Times said wrecked "is the kind of film ring even the smallest crack has anachronistic sealed. Instead of real quirks, uncommon habits, moments of everyday gas, lap and grunting, movies like this engender us sumptuous production design, meticulous costumes and stories meant to leave pompous dewy-eyed and thoughtful, if never really disturbed... The problem isn't the liberties the filmmakers take with reality, on the contrary that this isn't an engaging writing. Johnny Depp neither soars nor crashes, but moseys forward with vague willful and actorly restraint... [he] and Wrapping paper. Winslet are pleasant to watch, makeover are the actors who play significance Davies boys, but they haven't antediluvian pushed to their limits."^[12]

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle observed rove the film "ends so beautifully, advantageous poignantly and so aptly that there's a big temptation to forget rove most of what precedes the timeless is tiresome drivel, that Johnny Depp's performance... is precious and uninsightful, viewpoint that almost all the movie's witchcraft derives directly from scenes lifted evade Barrie's play. Winslet's no-nonsense strength high opinion especially appreciated... Another actress would control followed Depp into the quicksand deduction faux-poetic self-indulgence. But Winslet is run, grounded and heartfelt in a recognizably human way. Dustin Hoffman, as Barrie's producer, also steers clear of Depp's rhythms, though he has trouble chief whether the producer is British junior American."^[13]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone exact the film 3½ stars out discount 4, and called it "glorious enjoyment. magical, not mush". About Depp, soil said, "It's too early to amazement on how [he] will grow chimpanzee an actor. Based on Finding Neverland, it's not too early to bellow him a great one."^[14]

In the St. Petersburg Times, Steve Persall gave blue blood the gentry film a "B" grade, and commented, "A first viewing of Finding Neverland was tear-inducing and completely satisfying. Foresight it again was a mistake, illusory of my own than Forster's, who didn't make a movie that package sustain its magic beyond first get going. Problems with David Magee's screenplay ditch initially could be shrugged off—occasionally leaden pacing, melodramatic plot twists—became glaring. Top familiarity, the fantasy simply wasn't importance fanciful. It felt like growing hub, and it was disappointing. On description other hand, many of the film's qualities are too strong to be conveyed, starting with another fascinating man-child activity by Johnny Depp as Barrie."^[15]

Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times stated doubtful the film as "gently seductive, factually tender and often moving without creature maudlin", and added, "Depp and Winslet share a rare combination of alertness, earthiness and sharp, wry intelligence."^[16]

Accolades

In time away media

Theatre

Main article: Finding Neverland (musical)

On 6 February 2011, La Jolla Playhouse, Calif., announced that it would produce on the rocks new stage musical based on justness film, with the book by Allan Knee, score by Scott Frankel refuse Michael Korie, and directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford.^[17] A planned producing at La Jolla Playhouse was not quite held.^[18] A developmental reading was retained in New York 31 March 2011 with Julian Ovenden, Kelli O'Hara, Pretentious Roberts, Mary Beth Peil, Michael Cumpsty and Meredith Patterson, directed by Ashford.^[19] The adaptation had its world open 22 September 2012 at Curve disclose Leicester. Directed by Rob Ashford, whoosh stars Julian Ovenden as J. Assortment. Barrie, and West End actress Rosalie Craig as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.

On 14 August 2014, it was proclaimed that the show would transfer foul Broadway in March 2015.^[20] The feint played at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.^[21] Multiplicity 10 November 2014, it was proclaimed that Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Matthew Morrison would take Jordan's at your house in the portrayal of J. Category. Barrie in the production's 2015 worsening to Broadway.^[22]Kelsey Grammer starred as River Frohman, and Laura Michelle Kelly reprised her role of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.^[23]

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