With Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman, and, in the role of a real Peter, the clear and unsentimental Freddie Highmore.

NEWYORKER: Finding Neverland

" Early handicappers had bet heavily on veteran Julie Christie, a previous Oscar winner who played a woman falling victim to Alzheimer's in "Away from Her.

CNN: 'Old Men,' Europeans seize Oscars

Montag finds his wife, Linda (Julie Christie), dull, and his chance encounter with a bookish rebel (also played by Christie) piques his interest and sparks a crisis of conscience.

NEWYORKER: Fahrenheit 451

They include novelist Nick Hornby, film critic Barry Norman, Emma Noble, the ex-glamour model and former daughter-in-law of John Major, Sting, his film producer wife Trudie Styler and actress Julie Christie.

BBC: How Gary McKinnon became a cause celebre

An earlier movie by Polley, Away From Her, stood out as well but had the beneift of an Alice Munro story as the source material and Julie Christie as the star.

FORBES: Sarah Polley's Little Canadian Waltz

Completely unknown at the time of his arrest, Mr McKinnon became a symbol of the controversial US-UK extradition treaty, gaining a wealth of celebrity backers as diverse as Terry Waite, Sting and Julie Christie.

BBC: Profile: Gary McKinnon