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   childhood      distance      distant      enchantment      fantasy      imagination      inspire      loss      performances      playwright      relationship      re-marriage      review      young      youth   

J. M. Barrie is a whose most recent show was not successful. His producer is getting impatient. So is Barrie's wife , who finds him frustratingly .
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One day, Barrie peeks through a hole in his newspaper (his wife has cut out a bad of his show) and sees the Davies children playing in the park. Captured by their boyish
and touched by their , he begins to tell them stories. Their innocent fantasies, tinged with sadness, him to write a play about a boy who stays forever.
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His with the boys causes trouble with their grandmother, who thinks it impairs her
daughter's chances for . It puts more between Barrie and his wife. Outsiders wonder if there is something improper going on. But all Barrie wants is to play pirates and Indians. The boys help him find -- they show him Neverland, and he shows it to the world.
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The movie has some lovely images. Barrie and his wife open their separate bedroom doors. Behind hers is a bed. Behind his is...Neverland. And as in the timeless play itself, the pleasures of endless in a world in which we lose a little more every day are movingly portrayed.

The protagonists give touching . The sequences have more power and the glimpses of the play itself are more appealing than the framing story. You keep wanting to tell them to get out of the way so that you, too, can get back to Neverland.
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