Customer Reviews
Appreciated - By: Michael Evans, 27 Mar 2008 
I watched this film first on the plane to Gran Canaria! And as far an inflight entertainment goes it was perfect! It reallly set the right mood for my holiday! When I got home i bought it on DVD!
It's such a poignant film which reallly moves you. Its also educational as it tells you how Peter Pan came about. But above alll it has teh perfect acting duo of Kate Winslet & Johnny Depp. They compliment each other beautifully & reallly tell a story. It's a heart warming family film, which may make you cry due to some saddening content, but thats over ridden by the rest of the film anyway.
A genuinly lovely film.
The best film ever... Full stop. - By: Andrew Taylor, 04 Feb 2008 I bought this film on the day of release & still to this day I think about it & it warms my heart. Johnny Depp is the best actor of our time, his performance as Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie is, in my opinion, his best performance & he will have to go a while to better it.
Michael, played by Luke Spill (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), is an amazing actor for such a young age & has a great future ahead of him. I know Johnny Depp is very impressed with his performance & credits him as one of his best friends.
The soundtrack to this film will last a lifetime, it honestly does create a tone to this film which is breathtaking, I cant help but have a lump in my throat when i listen to Peter Pan Overture.
Please take my advice - watch this film!
Do you believe? - By: Brida, 01 Jan 2008 
FINDING NEVERLAND has proven to be the perfect film for Christmas or New Year. Although I am not a fan of Peter Pan or J. M. Barrie's other work, this film is truly beautiful & touching.
Johnny Depp plays the playwright, Barrie who is struggling to find the right magical ingredient for his plays. Then, a chance meeting with a widow (Kate Winslet) & her four sons in the park opens up his life & gives him the opportunity to find what is missing.
It is through this relationship with the boys that he is able to explore his own imagination, whilst at the same time igniting theirs, & so bringing the six of them closer together.
Yet, while Barrie's relationship with the boys' mother remains platonic, because of the times they live, people soon begin to talk, especiallly as Barrie is married yet spends more time with this family rather than his own wife.
Rightly or wrongly, Barrie does not sacrifice his friendship. Because of this, he is able to create Peter Pan - a play which saves his public image, & a play that enables him to give something to Sylvia at the end of the film.
FINDING NEVERLAND is turly a lovely film; one that surprises & delights in equal measure. The cast are brilliant. Depp & Winslet are both excellent. Likewise, the supporting cast help to make this film, each bringing something to their individual characters, making the whole thing more real. The examination of Barrie's relationship with his wife, for example, is very well handled - the actress expertly putting across the image of a woman who feels that she is being made a fool of by her husband's public display of friendhsip towards another female. And the actress who plays Winslet's mother also creates a formidable character, whose personality & motivations are brilliantly portrayed.
As a heartwarming film to watch, with an added bit of magic, that never fallls into the trap of being too sickly sweet, this film hits alll the marks.
The Bambi of the cinema is a true darling deer - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 03 Sep 2007 Pirates are Johnny Depp's curse for ever & even when he becomes a Lord in late Victorian London he manages do choose the author of Peter Pan & thus gets some Captain Hook to shake his hand. But his role is a composition of the best & most difficult type, the type of stunts you don't need a stuntman to do in your place. The film is a real gem for two main reasons. First of alll because it is a love story in a time when love was some kind of forbidden goods in the aristocracy. And the love story is so pure, so beyond any doubt that he avoids melodrama when death decides to play his own game with that Johnny who invades the widowed mother's life a little bit too much. Dramatic but not tear-wringing. And the second reason of the beauty of that film is also the reason why it remains feeling intense without being heart rending or heart breaking. The whole film is centered on a bunch of boys & brothers & Peter is so young that we are amazed by his being so present, so good, so mature in his performance. He does not miss a word, a sentiment or an emotion & his so deep acting touches us a lot more than the obstinacy of Death to come & take away what he considers his owed property. And alll the rest is nothing but the clothing & beefing up of that power. Johnny Depp becomes a real prodigy in this composition & he looks so serious that we forget the genial clown he is quite often in other films. Peter Pan is a legend & his author is like the Peter of Heavens, the guide & majordomo of our imagination who can introduce us to what real spiritual happiness can be. And we discover we are still able to dream because somewhere the film wakes up the child or even the baby who has never died completely in our life of needs & wants & remembers the cradle that a motherly hand was rocking in a regular & powerful rolling that has inspired our most intimate desires as soon as we were big enough to sleep flat on our stomach in an adult bed. Regular & religious rhythm of that rocking. The religion of coming out of the dream to wake up in a sunny world of pure tenderness.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
A great moving film - By: SJ SMART, 26 Apr 2007 I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Its the story of Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. This is the story of the creation of Peter Pan, how Barrie was influenced by the young family of a friend. Unfortunately he is married & the friend is an attractive widow played by Kate Winslett. Although their behaviour is perfect society frowns upon their relationship & gossips are hard at work! (Nothing changes!) In the end Barries own marriage fails but he has created a classic timeless childrens story.
My favourite part is when Barrie brings the performance of Peter Pan to Winsletts home as she is dying & unable to get to the theatre. This seems quite limited at first in their drawing room but then the curtains open & her garden has been transformed in to Never Never land!!
Its a moving film, a bit slow in paces, but Depp is his usual brilliant self & Winslett is stunning. Watch & enjoy!!
