'Finding Neverland' Takes Enchanted Look at Author

By Bob Mondello

Published November 11, 2004 at 11:00 PM CST

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NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the new biographical film Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp as Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie. Mondello says the movie is in some ways as much a fantasy as that children's classic, and has the same sense of enchantment.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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