'Finding Neverland' Takes Enchanted Look at Author

By Bob Mondello

Published November 11, 2004 at 10:00 PM MST

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.

Bob Mondello

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.