Where do authors get their inspiration from? What do they use for their muse? More to the point, where do beloved children's fantasies come from? It's an interesting question, I think.
This movie opens up with the failure of a play. J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) has written a flop. He takes his daily walk with his dog and ends up in the middle of a game between four young boys. Little do they know that he has an even more active imagination than they do. He quickly 'adopts' them and their widowed mother. The time they spend together ends up in his journal and then his mind and eventually on stage.
But not all is happy. The boys aren't all dealing with their father's death well. Barrie's wife doesn't like the time he's spending with a new family. And the new play is not exactly typical of London's most popular stuff.
The story is very charming and well acted. It cuts back and forth between real life and fantasy in a very entertaining way. The music is very good. Overall, it's a good but not great movie. It was nominated for Best Picture in 2004, more for tone I think than anything else. Worth seeing.
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I loved that movie!
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