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FILM REVIEW: 'Finding Neverland' too good to be true
From: University Wire
Date: 20041124
Author:Aaron Allen
Aaron Allen
University Wire
11-24-2004
(Daily Utah Chronicle) (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY -- Full of storybook charm and flights of fancy, "Finding Neverland" is a gentle delight. Its star, Johnny Depp, has played an insouciant pirate, a cross-dressing filmmaker and Edward Scissorhands, so the relatively normal role of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie may seem strictly pedestrian. But look closer-Depp finds the perfect, enchanting tone in a movie that could have gone seriously wrong.
It's turn-of-the-century London. The James M. Barrie in this film (it's important to make that distinction) is an ...
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