Watching Finding Neverland, 7:30 pm, at Drew Trotter's house
A Note from Drew Trotter: 

Monday night, we will have a viewing and discussion at my house of the next in the list of great movies from the past decade that got nominated for Best Picture but didn’t win. 2005 was a strange year at the Oscars; the five nominees for Best Picture could not have been more different. Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s tragic female boxing picture, which veers suddenly into melodrama and social reflection on the ethics of mercy killing, won the big prize. The other four movies were two biopics: The Aviator, Martin Scorsese’s look at the slow descent into madness of millionaire Howard Hughes and Ray, the brilliant story of blind singer and pianist Ray Charles; a delightful little movie about love and wine in Southern California called Sideways, and the picture we’ll be viewing this Monday—the third biopic in the race, Finding Neverland, the story of James M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.

Helmed by Marc Forster, who has done movies as radically different from one another as Monster’s Ball, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace and this picture, Neverland is the sweet, but sad story of J.M.Barrie, a failed playwright, who meets a family of four children playing in a park and their widowed mother (Kate Winslet), who change his life in the year that he writes the story Peter Pan. Barrie is married and his relationship with the family becomes a cause celebre in post-Victorian London, but the real story is not a love affair but the inspiration of the children’s imaginations and the effect they have on Barrie.

We will be watching and discussing the movie at my house at 1530 Rugby Ave; note we will start at our regular 7:30 p.m. time.

Summary of Details:

Film:  Finding Neverland
Date:  Monday, February 14
Time:  7:30 p.m.
Place:  1530 Rugby Ave.
Phone for directions: 434.295.8323