Finding Neverland

Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie
Kate Winslet - Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
Julie Christie - Mrs. Emma du Maurier
Radha Mitchell - Mary Ansell Barrie
Dustin Hoffman - Charles Frohman
Freddie Highmore - Peter Llewelyn Davies
Joe Prospero - Jack Llewelyn Davies
Nick Roud - George Llewelyn Davies
Luke Spill - Michael Llewelyn Davies
Ian Hart - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Kelly Macdonald - Peter Pan
Mackenzie Crook - Usher

Finding Neverland is based on the award-winning play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, which focuses on how Pan's celebrated author J.M. Barrie was inspired to write his story after bonding with four fatherless children. Depp produces a wonderfully understated portrayal replete with convincing Scottish accent, and shares a tender if unconvincing chemistry with co-star Kate Winslet.

Set in Edwardian London in 1904, Barrie's (Johnny Depp) creative journey to bring Peter Pan to life finds inspiration in the four fatherless Llewelyn-Davies boys. They become an important element in Barrie’s life and he encourages their creative impulses, and, unknowingly, lives vicariously through them. He becomes a kind of surrogate father to them, and develops a warm friendship with their recently widowed mother, Sylvia (Kate Winslet). This relationship angers both the boy’s stern grandmother (Julie Christie) and Barrie's reserved wife Mary (Radha Mitchell), and causes much scurrilous rumour-mongering amongst his circle of friends who can’t comprehend why he spends so much time in the company of children. The idyllic enchantment is suddenly broken when Sylvia develops a cough and her health quickly deteriorates.