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Finding Neverland is one of the best films I have seen all year. Depp and Winslet are superb and their supporting cast is very strong in particular Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman and Freddie Highmore. Forster's direction is tight and he maintains a story which had the potential to drag. Depp delivers a performance that is truly believable and he interacts with his co-stars well, in particular, Freddie Highmore who delivers a performance that outshines Depp's. It is a tour de force of acting talent. Clearly Highmore has a great career ahead of him. 9/10 for a superb piece of film-making, made diligently but, unfortunately, up against such strong contention, it had to make do with a disappointing award haul.

After every single excellent review on this film, I had to see it. "Finding Neverland" is such a wonderful and moving film. The whole ending, I was just in tears. I don't think they were tears of sadness, but tears of joy. This movie just made me feel so good inside. I think "Finding Neverland" brings us all back into childhood for an hour and a half. What was so fun, imaginative, and wonderful of just having this innocence. As a child, we never had to really worry until we became grown up; "Finding Neverland" is a perfect example of that. I would always recommend this movie to anyone. It's the perfect film to watch with your family and kids. It's charming and absolutely breath taking.10/10

Sir James Matthew Barrie (Johnny Depp) was surrounded by stuffy rich English people who had no use for imagination. As he got involved with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her sons, he began to imagine them flying and fighting pirates, and thus got the idea to write "Peter Pan".Usually, fantasies are kind of boring, but they did a really good job with it here. More than feel-good treacle, we get to see how Barrie became disenchanted with England's stuffy culture and was inspired to write "Peter Pan". The fact that Johnny Depp did a very good job with a Scottish accent only strengthens the movie. Interesting support also comes from Julie Christie as Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier, and Dustin Hoffman as James' friend Charles Frohman.All in all, this is what fantasy should be. Splendid.