Hollywood

Here's something you don't see every day.

Finding a good screen version of "Peter Pan" is harder than finding Neverland, at least in this weepie about the friendship between author James Barrie (Johnny Depp) and a dying mother (Kate Winslet) and her children. Not even Depp's charming Scottish burr can save the film when director Marc Foster refuses to let viewers use their imagination. No, Foster insists on showing us Neverland, which immediately looks silly instead of enchanting.