Experience Childhood Wonders!.Go To Neverland

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2005)

Suffering from severe flu I did not care what was on the DVD last night.Finding Neverland was a movie I knew little about and only the fact that two of my favourite actors, Johhnny Depp and Kate Winslet, starred in it led me to have any interest.Of course I knew well the Story of Peter Pan and had read the book myself and to my own children.But of J.M. Barrie I knew almost nothing. After the first fifteen to twenty minutes that it took me to settle into the world of James Barry comfortably, learn that he had a Scottish accent, accept that he slipped between the real and imaginary worlds with ease, and I was transported to another place.A gentle world that brought back to me my own childhood experiences and flights of fancy. I am no expert just a lover of movies and watch as many as I can.I cant remember a better film, a better performance than Johnny Depps and the young boy who played Peter.How on earth could a young child have the insight and intensity to convey what he did.Truly an amazing performance. No violence no sex no bad language.Wonderful sets and costumes, finely written dialogue brilliant acting cameos in the minor roles.I have no criticisms.It just got better and better. As for the last half an hour.I had stopped coughing for the first time in two days as I watched spellbound, but the tears that flowed as I felt so many tender and sad and wonderful things nearly choked me. Don't miss this film.Stay with it for the first 15 to 20 minutes and let yourself relax into a gentler time and the world of Never land. I'm going to watch it again today , and tomorrow....