Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland movie poster
Directed by	Marc Forster
Produced by	Richard N. Gladstein Nellie Bellflower
Written by	David Magee
Starring	Johnny Depp Kate Winslet Julie Christie Dustin Hoffman Radha Mitchell Freddie Highmore Kate Maberly
Music by	Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Cinematography	Roberto Schaefer
Editing by	Matt Chesse
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	November 24, 2004
Running time	101 min.
Language	English
Budget	$25,000,000
IMDb profile

Finding Neverland is an Academy Award-winning film that released in 2004, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. It is a semi-fictional account of the experiences of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie that led him to write the children's classic. In the movie, he befriends a young widow, and more importantly, her sons, and their experiences together give him the ideas for a story about boys who do not want to grow up. Download high resolution version (508x755, 71 KB)Movie poster for Finding Neverland, for use in that article; obtained from [1]. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. ... Richard N. Gladstein is a Hollywood producer. ... Nellie Bellflower is an American actress, born in Phoenix, Arizona, May 1, 1946. ... David Magee (b. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an English Academy Award-winning film actress. ... Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, BAFTA-winning, and five-time Golden Globe-winning American method actor. ... Radha Louise Mitchell (born November 12, 1973 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress. ... Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Freddie Highmore (born February 14, 1992 in London, England) is an English child actor. ... Kate Maberly (born Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly, 14 March 1982) is an English film actress. ... Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (b. ... Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company. ... is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... This article is about the play by J.M. Barrie. ... For the British Army surgeon, see James Barry (surgeon). ...

Cast and crew

The film is directed by Marc Forster, who previously was responsible for Monster's Ball. The screenplay was adapted by David Magee from the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. It features a song written by Elton John. Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell, and Freddie Highmore also appear in the movie. Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. ... Monsters Ball is a 2001 American drama/romance film. ... David Magee (b. ... This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, BAFTA-winning, and five-time Golden Globe-winning American method actor. ... Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an English Academy Award-winning film actress. ... Radha Louise Mitchell (born November 12, 1973 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress. ... Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Freddie Highmore (born February 14, 1992 in London, England) is an English child actor. ...

Awards

Finding Neverland was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Johnny Depp. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Score by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. It was also nominated for several other awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award for Freddie Highmore for playing the part of "Peter". Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ... Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (b. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Box office

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+ Other International Takings: $64,970,000

= Gross Worldwide Takings: $116,650,613

Notes

• Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003, but Columbia Pictures, which had the rights to Barrie's play for their film Peter Pan, refused to allow Miramax to use certain scenes from the play in Finding Neverland if it were to be released at the same time. Miramax thus agreed to delay the release of Finding Neverland by one year in exchange for the rights to use Barrie's words.

• There is a danish screamo band under same name.

• The film was at one point (before release) titled J.M. Barrie's Neverland.

• Freddie Highmore and Johnny Depp are also in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory together, with Highmore playing Charlie and Depp playing Willy Wonka. This came about because Depp was extremely impressed with Highmore's performance in this movie and requested him for the role of Charlie to Tim Burton.

• Dustin Hoffman, who appears in the movie, has also appeared in another famous work adapting the Peter Pan mythos: Hook, as the title character Captain James Hook. There was originally a scene in which Dustin Hoffman's character was to put on the Hook costume and read some of his lines to point out how silly he found it, but Hoffman didn't want to do it, so the scene was changed to him reading off and ridiculing character names from the play.

• When J. M. Barrie is playing with the children pretending to be a pirate, Johnny Depp uses Jack Sparrow's voice.

• The song Fly by German power metal band Blind Guardian was inspired by, and makes distinct references to Finding Neverland throughout the entire song, with such lyrics as "No words like just in mind" and "She's finding Neverland there on the day she dies." Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kursch has stated himself that this film inspired him as he was writing the lyrics for Fly.

• Depp wears the same hat in a scene at the park that he wore in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

• Also in the film are

-Mackenzie Crook, as the usher, with whom Depp stars in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (he plays Ragetti, the pirate with the wooden eye),

-Angus Barnett, as Nana the dog/Mr. Reilly, who appeared as Mulroy in Pirates of the Caribbean

-Paul Whitehouse, as the stage manager, of The Fast Show fame, of which Depp is famously a fan, and on which he once appeared alongside Whitehouse.

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Differences from the true story

The opening credits of the film state that it was "inspired by true events". In addition to the material invented for the screenplay, it takes various liberties with the historical facts, and the timing of events:

• Arthur Llewelyn Davies was still alive and well when Barrie befriended Sylvia and their sons.
• There were five Davies boys, not just four. (Nico, the youngest, was omitted.)
• Michael (and Nico) had not yet been born, and Peter was still an infant, when Barrie met the Davies family.
• The Davies household had a nanny Mary Hodgson, who accompanied the boys on their visits to Kensington Gardens; Barrie did not meet Sylvia until after he'd become friends with George and Jack. (Much of the role of Sylvia's mother in the film was based on Mary.)
• The audience for the debut of Peter Pan was not "seeded" with children. (The only precaution taken against a cool reception was that the musicians were to clap if the audience failed to respond to Peter Pan's plea to save Tinker Bell; this proved unnecessary.)
• Sylvia was still healthy at the play's premiere in 1904, and did not die until nearly six years later. Arthur also survived to see the play's debut. (Barrie and Frohman did stage an improvised home presentation of the play, but it was for 5-year-old Michael who was suffering from a stubborn childhood illness during the play's revival.)
• Likewise, the Barries' marriage ended shortly before Sylvia's death, but years later than depicted in the movie.
• The lives of the Davies family were rife with tragedy following the film's optimistic ending: George died fighting in World War I in 1915, Michael drowned with a friend at Oxford in 1921, and Peter grew to hate his identification as "Peter Pan", eventually committing suicide in 1960.

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Awards and nominations

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• Won : Best Original Score (Finding Neverland (soundtrack))
• Nominated : Best Picture
• Nominated : Best Adapted Screenplay
• Nominated : Best Actor for Johnny Depp
• Nominated : Achievement In Art Direction
• Nominated : Achievement In Costume Design
• Nominated : Achievement In Film Editing

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• Won : Best Picture

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• Won : Top 10 Films

External links

• Official Site
• Finding Neverland at the Internet Movie Database
• Finding Neverland at Rotten Tomatoes
• Finding Neverland at Metacritic
• Finding Neverland at Box Office Mojo
• Finding Neverland Production Notes