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Drawn into 'Finding Neverland'; Family source for 'Peter Pan' touchingly dramatized.(SHOW)(MOVIES)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20041119
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

While creating the children's stage classic "Peter Pan," playwright James M. Barrie grew close to a family of five fatherless boys and their widowed mother. This often heart-rending attachment is dramatized in "Finding Neverland," a beguiling and poignant new testament to the redemptive power of artistic sublimation.

In the interests of dramatic economy, director Marc Forster and screenwriter David Magee reduce the five Llewelyn-Davies brothers to a quartet, relying on Freddie Highmore's Peter as the most precocious and ...

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