Just a dog? *Just*? What a horrible candle-snuffing word.

Rating: 9/10 (10 August 2009)

I am in a Johnny Depp mood at the moment. Three in a row according to my current schedule.
How could I have missed this film that was nominated for over 70 awards, winning 17, including an Oscar? Well, I fixed that today.
Was there supposed to be something salacious going on between Sir James Matthew Barrie (Johnny Depp) and the four boys? If so, it was not evident.
Despite the fact that their grandmother (Julie Christie) had her nose up in the air over his playing with the children, it was apparently just his way of having fun and looking for an idea for a play.
Kate Winslet was fantastic as the children's mother, who was trying to hide her sickness from the boys due to the fact that already had to deal with the death of their father.
Of course, his wife (Radha Mitchell) did not like the idea that he was spending so much time with the children and their mother.
Of course the art direction and the sets were stupendous, and Depp was as brilliant as I have ever seen him.
The addition of the orphans to the audience was, as Dustin Hoffman said, genius.
This movie was just pure magic.