Finding Neverland (2004)

How to go to the Neverland? “Belief, Peter. Just belief!” said James M. Barrie(Johnny Deep) –Finding Neverland (2004).

The world is where you believe; the scene is what you imagine; and the person is who you perceive. Finding Neverland (2004) is a lovely film for its final scenes as Sir James Mathew Barrie talks to Peter that, by belief, he is able to find the Neverland and to visit his lovely mother. Directed by Marc Forester, this delightful film biography adapted by David Magee from Allan Knee’s play, “The Man Who Was Peter Pan,” The historical reality between lushly imagined expeditions to a fictitious Neverland brings the audience into James M. Barrie’s fantastic world, both the real and the imagined world.

The real James Mathew Barrie was influenced and inspired by the adventurous stories of Robert Louis Stevenson of pirates, Indians and kidnapped boys. As a young journalist in London, in the peak year of the Gilded Age, Barrie’s vivid imagination took him from novels to stage-plays.