It had been some time since I watched the film before watching again on Monday afternoon. You can never forget a Peter Pan film after you see it. I cannot remember if I saw the film before the the television production starring Mary Martin or the animated Disney film. Among them are George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close, David Crosby, and Jimmy Buffet.Ī year and a half before Jurassic Park hit theaters, Hook became the first Steven Spielberg-directed film that I saw in theaters. True enough, this comes as a shock to both of his children.Ī number of celebrities make cameos in Hook, be it credited or uncredited. And yet, it’s a baseball game in Neverland that serves as the inciting moment to get Peter to start remembering. Peter is always working so he’s never there to see Jack playing baseball. It doesn’t work with Maggie but unfortunately, Jack gets seduced by the dark side. Smee (Bob Hoskins) encourages Hook to use Banning’s weaknesses to their advantage. If you blink, you’ll miss a teenage Gwyneth Paltrow portraying Wendy.īy making Peter Pan grow up, it allows Spielberg to tackle the father-son relationship between Peter and Jack. The flashbacks during a scene with Tinkerbell play a key role in moving the Peter Pan story forward. The Lost Boys are led by Rufio (Dante Basco) and while they initially mock Peter, they come to realize that the grown-up Banning is the former Pan.īanning also starts to remember. Of course, Banning doesn’t remember and Captain Hook gives him three days. It takes Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) coming to the rescue and taking him to Neverland.
It had been so long that Peter forgot that magic existed. They leave their children, Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Ambert Smith), home with Tootles (Arthur Malet) and housekeeper Liza (Laurel Cronin).Īfter the dinner, the family returns home to learn that the children were kidnapped by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). After a quick prologue setting the scene, the Banning family is off to London to a charity dinner honoring Wendy. This is a brilliant way of tying things back into the original J.M. Oh yeah, his wife, Moira (Caroline Goodall), also happens to be Wendy’s (Maggie Smith) granddaughter. What if Peter Pan grew up? In this case, Pan becomes a workaholic father known as Peter Banning (Robin Williams). Over two decades before Disney wonder what would happen if Christopher Robin grew up, Steven Spielberg also tackled a similar idea.
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Hook, featuring a grown-up version of the legendary Peter Pan facing off against the captain, offers a nostalgic trip full of adventure.
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