![]() Oliver Fox plays Mary's lover Gilbert Cannan. Ian Hart appears as Barrie's friend Arthur Conan Doyle. Highmore's performance in this film led Johnny Depp to suggest him to Tim Burton for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which Highmore played Charlie Bucket and Depp played Willy Wonka. The Llewelyn Davies boys are portrayed by Freddie Highmore ( Peter), Nick Roud ( George), Joe Prospero ( Jack) and Luke Spill ( Michael). Hoffman objected to this, so the scene was rewritten for him to simply read aloud and ridicule character names from the play. The original screenplay for this film included a scene in which his character – the play's sceptical producer – was to put on the Captain Hook costume and read some of his lines to point out how silly he found it. Hoffman had appeared a dozen years earlier in the title role of the Peter Pan sequel Hook (1991). ![]() In addition to Johnny Depp as Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the film stars Dustin Hoffman as producer Charles Frohman, Julie Christie as Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier and Radha Mitchell (who had starred in Forster's Everything Put Together) as Barrie's ex wife Mary. Tim Potter as Captain Hook/George Darling.Freddie Highmore as Peter Llewelyn Davies.Barrie comforting Peter on the bench in the park where they first met. Barrie discovers that her will says that he and her mother should look after the boys, an arrangement agreeable to both. In the next scene, everyone is at Sylvia's funeral. The living room and back garden transform into Neverland and Sylvia continues to walk on her own. She takes the hands of her boys and slowly walks out into Neverland. At the end of the play, Peter Pan points to the back doors and implies that Sylvia should go off to Neverland. He gets the actors, props, and musicians together in the Llewelyn Davies house. Sylvia is too ill to attend the premiere, so Barrie arranges to have an abridged production of it performed in her home. ![]() Peter attends the play and realises the play is about his brothers and Barrie. Barrie is all set for his play, but when Peter arrives alone to the play, he goes to Sylvia's house to check up on her, and misses the show. Barrie peppers the opening night audience with children from a nearby orphanage and the adults react to their infectious delight with an appreciation of their own. Producer Charles Frohman skeptically agrees to mount Peter Pan, despite his belief that it holds no appeal for upper-class theatergoers. Barrie takes those adventures he has with the boys and makes them into a play called Peter Pan. He too is a boy at heart and spending time with the family is special. ![]() Emma also seeks to control her daughter and grandsons, especially as Sylvia becomes increasingly weak from an unidentified illness.Īlong the way, Barrie goes on adventures with Sylvia and her boys. Barrie's wife Mary, who eventually divorces him, and Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier object to the amount of time Barrie spends with the Llewelyn Davies family. Sylvia was a widow: her husband died from cancer and left her with four boys to bring up on her own. He proves to be a great playmate and surrogate father figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics give him ideas which he incorporates into a play about boys who do not want to grow up, especially one named after troubled young Peter Llewelyn Davies.Īlthough Barrie sees this family as wonderful and inspirational, people question his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family. In 1903, following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, Sir James Matthew Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) in Kensington Gardens, and a strong, close friendship develops among them. The film was the inspiration for the stage musical of the same name in 2012. The film earned seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Johnny Depp, and won for Best Original Score. ![]() Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. Finding Neverland is a 2004 biographical fantasy film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. ![]()
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