Found Neverland

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2019)

When I first heard about this project, I doubted it would work as a film, the life of J.M. Barrie surrounding the creation of his Peter Pan play, but then I did not know the story.
I don't know how accurate the screenplay was to real events, but it doesn't matter, as it was made extremely well and was not boring like I thought it might. Johnny Depp is great as Barrie (his Scottish accent is pretty good), as is Kate Winslet. With great support from Dustin Hoffman among others, Julie Christie is class and Freddie Highmore steals the show as Peter. There are some links with Johnny Depp's "pirates" films with McKenzie Crook and Angus Barnett, and Toby Jones pops up as 'Smee' in the play. A good cast.
It is well directed, got good music and the play is put on well. Happy and Sad at the same time, in real life there was much tragedy with that family, so even though not completely accurate it reflected real events well.