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...interest in a 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...
...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...
...rest of the time, the film stifles any impulse to believe in its buoyancy by being sadly earthbound. Peter and the boys may fly through the bedroom window; Finding Neverland takes a big, brave leap and lands splat on the sidewalk. By Richard Corliss
MOVIES: Finding Neverland's Peter Pan story is sadly earthbound...
...networks are increasingly afraid that viewers will miss episodes, fall behind and give up. "There is now the S word--serialization--that the networks are terrified of," says J.J. Abrams, creator and executive producer of Alias and Lost. On the other hand, procedurals "are easy to digest," says Peter Jankowski, an executive producer of NBC's three Law & Order series. A fourth, Trial by Jury, is coming in midseason...