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'NEVERLAND' LOW ON MAGIC, BUT IT MAY HOOK YOU.(U)
From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20041112
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
THAT OLD impossible-to-film subject, a writer writing, gets a lot of help in ``Finding Neverland.''
James M. Barrie's inspirations for his play ``Peter Pan'' were pretty concrete and certainly lent themselves to drama. Add that to the playwright's own quirky personality, and you can't help but come up with a film rich in winsome enchantment and tear-duct-draining pathos.
It also doesn't hurt to toss in man-boy extraordinaire Johnny Depp as Barrie and top-notch actress Kate Winslet as the mother of the brood whom he reimagined into the ...
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