
Finding Neverland
2004 · Movie · PG · 106 min · ★ 7.3 · 75% critics
After a playwright’s creative block, he meets a widow and her four young boys, forming a close bond that reshapes his life. Their time together sparks new ideas and becomes the inspiration behind his lasting masterpiece, Peter Pan.
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Details
- Years
- 2004
- Release date
- 2004-10-29
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (3,749 votes)
- Box office
- $116,766,556
- Budget
- $25,000,000
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy heartfelt stories about keeping imagination alive through hardship and watching a friendship grow into something meaningful; Not for you if you want a strictly factual biography, or prefer lighter adventures like Bridge to Terabithia.
Pros: heartwarming imagination; strong family drama; standout young performance | Cons: can feel a bit twee; includes grief themes; some subplots lag
Themes
- london, england
- stroke of fate
- becoming an adult
- parent child relationship
- faith
- widow
- theater play
- theatre group
- author
- illness
- children's author
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 2005
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award — Best Family Film · 2004
- National Board of Review Award — Best Film
- National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
- Academy Award — Best Production Design · 2005 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 2005 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Film Editing · 2005 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Score · 2005 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Costume Design · 2005 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 2005 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 2005 · nominated
Cast & crew

Johnny Depp
as Sir James Matthew Barrie

Kate Winslet
as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Julie Christie
as Mrs. Emma du Maurier

Dustin Hoffman
as Charles Frohman

Freddie Highmore
as Peter Llewelyn Davies

Radha Mitchell
as Mary Ansell Barrie

Kate Maberly
as Wendy

Joe Prospero
as Jack Llewelyn Davies

Nick Roud
as George Llewelyn Davies

Luke Spill
as Michael Llewelyn Davies
Directed by Marc Forster