Word: pan
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While she was prohibited from competing for the Crimson, she was allowed to participate in training with the team, and took part in outside competitions, earning a silver medal in the Pan American games and winning the national championship in the 200-meter butterfly...
...version, based on Allan Knee's 1998 play, Barrie (Johnny Depp) befriends the young sons of socialite Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet). While she grows ill from tuberculosis, Barrie spins a fantasy world; it is therapy for the boys and a spur to his theatrical creativity. The result: Peter Pan, which turns 100 next month...
...film that portrays children as children rather than jaded sitcom brats and their adult friend as a generous, guileless soul rather than a sad and unsettling influence--a lost boy himself--like the pop-star resident of another Neverland who at 46 still imagines himself as Peter Pan...
...Sylvia's mother (the meanly used Julie Christie) into those familiar villains, small-minded grownups. Sylvia too is a stick figure: languishing like the heroine of a dime romance, she suffers severe attacks whenever a play is to be staged in her honor. Only toward the end, when Peter Pan is staged in her home, does the movie alchemize from the subpar into the nearly sublime by asserting that theatrical art, at its best, is a sweet affirmation of life and a bold defiance of death...
MOVIES: Finding Neverland's Peter Pan story is sadly earthbound...