Hook (1991) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV a list of 28 titles created 24 Mar 2012 a list of 45 titles created 08 Apr 2012 a list of 25 titles created 08 Jun 2012 a list of 25 titles created 15 Apr 2013 a list of 34 titles created 06 Mar 2014 Search for " Hook " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 5 Oscars.

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Director: Wolfgang Petersen Daniel accompanies his mentor to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own. Director: John G. Avildsen A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Director: Shawn Levy When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Stars: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable. Director: Danny DeVito Edit Storyline Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts).

With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com> What if Peter Pan grew up? Genres: 11 December 1991 (USA) See more » Also Known As: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby SR (35 mm prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Gwyneth Paltrow 's second film. She appears briefly, as the teen-aged Wendy during the quick sequence as Wendy is growing up. See more » Goofs In the scenes that take place in Neverland, Peter's arms are hairless, but in the other scenes, thick hair can be seen covering Peter's arms. See more » Quotes Wendy Darling : The stories are true! I swear to you! I swear on everything I adore, and now he's come back to seek his revenge. The fight isn't over for Captain James Hook. He wants you back. He knows that you'll follow Jack and Maggie to the ends of the earth and beyond. And by heaven, you must find a way. Only you can save your children.

Somehow, you must go back. You must make yourself remember. Wendy Darling : Peter, don't you know who you are? [...] See more » Crazy Credits After Tootles flies away and the end credits start, one of the stars in the sky continues to glow. According to the Peter Pan stories, "The second star to the right and straight out till morning" is where NeverLand is located. See more » Connections Ahoy! Neverland! Ahoy! Neverland! Pinterest For six months earlier this year, the set of Steven Spielberg’s Hook, his extravagant, revisionist tale of Peter Pan, was Hollywood’s hottest attraction. Everyone and his mother and father wanted a glimpse of the fantastical $8 million Neverland, with its 70-foot Jolly Roger pirate galleon, the Lost Boys’ labyrinthine tree house and the live storks and flamingos. “There were some unreal visitors there,” recalls production designer Norman Garwood.

“One day you’d be saying excuse me to Demi Moore and then have to shuffle around Whoopi Goldberg and then get a call to come meet Tom Cruise .” Also on the guest list: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jordan’s Queen Noor, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening (their Bugsy was filming next door), Mel Gibson and Prince. “I don’t think they all came just to see the sets,” says Dustin Hoffman, who plays the villainous title character, Capt. James Hook. “They knew something special was going on.” Or maybe they just wanted to see for themselves whether Julia Roberts , fresh from her almost-at-the-altar split with Kiefer Sutherland last June, was as emaciated and emotionally fragile a Tinkerbell as rumor insisted. Or whether Hoffman, in keeping with his reputation, was grabbing the directorial reins from Spielberg’s hands. Or whether the just turned 40 Robin Williams was able to fight, fly and crow credibly as the pixieish Pan.

What most visitors observed, in fact, was that Spielberg had managed to get his stars—including Maggie Smith as Wendy, now a great-grandmother, and Bob Hoskins as Hook’s aide-de-ship, Smee—to toss their egos overboard (for the most part) and release the child within for the year’s most eagerly anticipated film. Indeed, Hook represented a milestone for Spielberg, who turns 44 this week. “I was finally able to break through my 20-year fear of working with movie stars,” says the director, who often sticks with special effects and youthful unknowns (E.T., Empire of the Sun). “My God! It was so easy!” Of course, working with movie stars is also so-o-o expensive, with Hoffman and Williams (and Spielberg) making off with a guaranteed load of booty even if the movie, which opened around the country last week, doesn’t return the studio’s investment. With the principals’ pricey deals and a production tab estimated to exceed $60 million, which makes it one of the most expensive movies of all time (Terminator 2 holds first place at a reported $100 million), the film may have to smash all existing box office records just to make a dime.

Initial reviews were mixed, but Spielberg is banking on audiences losing themselves in the same spirited sense of fun that he and the Hook gang seem to have enjoyed while making the film. According to Dante Basco, 16, who leads the band of orphans known as the Lost Boys, “It was like coming to Disneyland to work each day.” Turning work into play: Steven Spielberg’s comedy club The mood on Sony soundstage 27 was set each morning in the makeup trailer, says Spielberg, when Hoffman, ostensibly for health reasons, “would down an entire bowl of hot onions and garlic. To counter directing him nose-to-nose, I would have six mouthfuls of the stuff. So Robin would have six mouthfuls too. Together we’d walk onto the set and gross out the entire crew. They’d part like the Red Sea when we came in. That was the best special effect we had, I think.” Hoffman and Williams would then begin exchanging dirty jokes and limericks in a joust of wits that would continue all day. Luke La-Fontaine, a Hook pirate, recalls, “There was this parrot on the ship, and Robin could imitate it perfectly.

Invariably he would screech ‘Aaaack!’ just when Dustin was in the middle of a long scene.” On one occasion, recalls an extra, “Dustin said, ‘I’ve lost my motivation. Let’s do it again.’ Then Robin quipped, ‘When all else fails, try acting,’ referring to a famous Olivier quote on Method acting [which Sir Laurence flung disdainfully at Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man in 1976]. Dustin was tight-lipped.” Still, Hoffman managed to get in a few slashes of scimitar wit himself. One day, says pirate David Speaker, “Robin flubbed his lines, and Dustin looked straight into the camera and shrugged, ‘What can you expect from Mork?’ ” Not to be outdone, Robin “did the next take perfectly, then looked into the camera and whispered [referring to Hoffman’s notorious 1987 bomb ], ‘Ishtar is on television tonight.’ ” Yo ho ho… Capt. Dustin Hoffman and the (Method) School for Scoundrels Explaining why he jumped for the rogue’s role, Hoffman points out that the other great movie villains had already been snatched.

“I was dying to do the Joker in Batman,” he says of the part Jack Nicholson landed. “And Danny DeVito is playing the Penguin in the next Batman.” Reveling in his preening Hook persona, which he based in part on columnist William F. Buckley Jr., Hoffman stayed in character between takes, amusing some—and annoying others. Inviting the mermaids to join him, he “drank champagne and Guinness [black velvets],” reports one cast member, “which was OK, ’cause that is what [Hoffman felt] Hook would have drunk, but it also made him a little aggressive and mean spirited. Maybe that was part of his character too. He’d also walk up to any of the girls and ask, ‘Did you dream about me last night?’ ” Hoffman, as is his tendency, sometimes began calling the shots on the set. “It was weird,” says Basco, who adds that Hoffman generously helped him rehearse his lines. “It was like having a lot of different directors.” But Spielberg says Hoffman’s behind-the-camera forays were helpful, and he proclaims Hook “the most collaborative movie” he has ever made.

Robin Williams as Pan: Not acting his age For the sake of Pan, Williams, 20 lbs. lighter than in last summer’s The Fisher King, dared go where even Kevin (Robin Hood) Costner wouldn’t: into a pair of green tights. By all accounts, the actor-comedian was a pirate’s treasure chest of mirth. “He was like another one of the kids,” says Lost Boy Basco. “He’d do things like dance really funny to make us laugh.” Says mermaid Regina Russell: “He was always calling us Sushi or Sashimi.” Raushan Hammond, the 9-year-old who plays the rotund Lost Boy Thudbutt, recalls that when he asked Williams to play Mork, the actor obliged with a hilarious routine about Mork hooking up with Barbara Bush. According to Charlie Korsmo, 13, who plays the grown-up Pan’s son, Jack (see box, page 96), “Robin also has a shy, serious side.

He gave me a computer, and he’d come in and play computer simulations.” Production designer Garwood says, “We were always having kids in wheelchairs visit, and Robin would always take the time to go talk with them.” Julia Roberts : Travails of a troubled Tinkerbell If Williams, Hoffman and Spielberg sometimes earned on like the Three Musketeers—or the Three Stooges—then the odd woman out was Julia Roberts , exhausted from coping with the Sutherland breakup and a blossoming romance with Jason Patric. Because of her frail state of mind and body, she was plagued with rumors of drug abuse, which she has called “just absurd.” At one point the Hollywood buzz said she might be replaced, but Spielberg rises to her defense. “Julia was fine to work with,” he says. “Her biggest problem was timing. Her personal life fell apart, and she reported to work on the same weekend.

It was a bad time for her, and under those highly charged emotional conditions, she was a pro.” Still, says Garwood, when Roberts left for a trip to Ireland with Patric before she was scheduled to begin filming, “There was a lot of tension arising from the will-she-or-won’t-she-show-up question. The producers seemed really worried, and some of the worrying spread down to us. We would have to work on one set instead of another to time it with her arrival.” Perhaps the most telling incident occurred when Roberts was heading toward the set one afternoon, where her Tinkerbell (who is 7″ tall onscreen) was filmed against a blue background screen, and heard a voice calling, “Hey, Kieffo, get over here.” At that, Roberts bolted for her trailer, telling the set coordinator, “Get him out of here. I don’t want to see him! Call security. How did he get on the lot?” “Who?” asked the puzzled coordinator, “Kiefer,” said Roberts. “Kiefer?” replied the coordinator. “They were calling Kieffo. You know, Dustin’s stunt double.” Roberts’s recent prickliness about public attention apparently caused Williams some concern.

According to one cast member, “Robin said to me, ‘I hope Julia is going to be kind to all those kids that come up to her and expect her to be Tink. Tinkerbell is magical.’ ” Captain Hook’s pirate crew: Trying not to monkey around Not everyone in Neverland was filled with happy thoughts. Recruited at biker hangouts, the 150 salty sea dogs, who mostly lie around Pirate Wharf drunk and dazed, were governed on the set by six coordinators and a printed list of 35 rules, including: “Do not talk to the principals. Do not touch the principals. Do not ask for autographs. Do not eat or drink the cast or crew’s food. No taking pictures. Do not touch the animals. Do not pet the monkey [a Neverland resident] or YOU WILL BE FIRED.” (Two pirates were exempt: David Crosby, who has a cameo, and Glenn Close, whose character is punished for disloyalty to Hook.) Between scenes the extras were sent to a holding area on another soundstage, where they were fed pretzels and water, while the stars reportedly enjoyed tastier snacks of soup and chili. A few pirates contemplated mutiny.

“The hierarchy on the set was hard to take,” grumbled one. “I personally was thinking of petting that monkey on several occasions.” Family fun: How Peter Pan finally discovered fatherhood Behavior on the set may have been a bit infantile at times, but then where would Hook be without children? In Nowhere and probably. After all, it was screenwriter Jim Hart’s son, Jake, 12, who first floated the idea that became the movie’s whimsical underpinning. To wit, says Jake: “The crocodile didn’t eat Hook [as at the end of author J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan] because Hook got away.” Jake later clinched the Hook premise during a traditional Hart family dinner game, What If. “What if,” he asked, “Peter Pan grew up?” In Hook, Peter has become cutthroat lawyer Peter Banning, an inattentive father of two, who must remember his past as Pan in order to save his kids from the scurrilous Hook. Williams, Hoffman, Hoskins and Spielberg—all dads—helped flesh out the paternal elements of the story.

“We all became very conscious of being fathers,” says Roger Rabbit star Hoskins, who has two children at home, ages 6 and 8. “We’d come to work and say, ‘What wonderful story did you tell your kid last night? Did you play ball with him?’ There was this competition. You know, ‘I’m better with my kids.’ ” Ultimately, Hoffman may have taken the prize because his son Jake, 10, got a part in a pirate baseball scene and Max, 7, got to play Pan as a young boy. “Steven kept saying. ‘I in looking for a kid who looks like Max,’ ” recalls Hoffman, “so we finally decided he should just do it.” Memories of movies past: Over the rainbow in Neverland One day, visual consultant John Napier took his friend, Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft, and her son Jesse Cole, 7, on a walk through the sets he had designed. As Napier recalls, “She started to cry, and when I asked why, she said, ‘Did you realize this is the same soundstage where my mother made The Wizard of Oz?

This movie is the closest thing that’s ever been done to that, and it’s too overwhelming for me.’ ” Through good days and bad, says British actress Caroline Goodall, who plays Wendy’s granddaughter and Peter’s wife, every Hook hand felt the power of Neverland’s Oz-like spell. “You couldn’t help feeling you had the chance there to make another classic,” Goodall says. “You could feel the magic at work.” JEANNIE PARK KAREN G. JACKOVICH and CRAIG TOMASHOFF in Los Angeles, DAVID HUTCHINGS in New York City, MARGARET NELSON in Minneapolis, ROSEMARY THORPE TRACEY in London Show Full Article Bangarang: Things you never knew about Hook Email a friend THERE are a few easy ways to tell if someone has seen Hook, one of the greatest kids films from the 1990s. Simply start chanting ‘run home jack’ or yell ‘bangarang’ at the top of your lungs and if their eyes light up, you’ll know they’re a fan of the Robin Williams classic.

The 1991 movie, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, was nominated for five Oscars and is the fifth highest grossing pirate themed film of all-time. Here are some little known facts about the Peter Pan remake: Michael Jackson could have been in the movie with a bunch of lost boys. (AP Photo/Pat RoqSource:AP Michael Jackson: Steven Spielberg originally wanted to make the movie in 1983 with Michael Jackson playing Peter Pan, according to IMDB . The King of Pop was also going to sing most of the songs on the soundtrack. But Spielberg was too busy with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and held off on Hook until 1991. Bowie would have been a killer Captain Hook.Source:YouTube Cast: Both Kevin Kline and Tom Hanks were considered for the role of Peter Pan, which of course eventually went to Robin Williams. Rocker David Bowie was offered the role of Captain Hook but turned it down, and Richard Attenborough passed on playing Tootles.

Julia Roberts wasn’t very pleasant to be around on set.Source:YouTube Diva: Julia Roberts played Tinkerbell in the film, but according to IMDB , the actress was such a diva on set that the other cast and crew nicknamed her ‘Tinkerhell’. Another interesting fact: because the Oscar winner appeared barefoot in most of her scenes, she had an assistant whose sole responsibility was to keep her feet clean. That’s Glenn Close with a beard.Source:YouTube Cameos: Remember when that pirate gets locked in the wooden chest with a scorpion? That pirate was in fact Glenn Close, dressed as a man. Singer Phil Collins also made a cameo in Hook, appearing as a police inspector. Notice the hairless arms.Source:News Limited Close shave: Robin Williams is one of the hairiest men in Hollywood, and this didn’t quite suit the image of Peter Pan. So the comedian was forced to shave his chest and arms for the role. Real word: Bangarang is actually a Jamaican word which means disturbance. It’s a young Gwyneth Paltrow.Source:YouTube Gwyneth: In just her second film ever, Gwyneth Paltrow played the teenage Wendy in Hook.

Not impressed: Steven Spielberg was pretty disappointed with how Hook turned out. He said in a radio interview last year that, “I wanna see Hook again because I so don’t like that movie, and I’m hoping someday I’ll see it again and perhaps like some of it.” Hook (film) – Neverpedia, the Peter Pan wiki Jump to: navigation , search Theatrical poster Hook is a 1991 family fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg . The film stars Robin Williams , Dustin Hoffman , Julia Roberts , Bob Hoskins , Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott . Hook acts as a sequel to Peter Pan 's original adventures, focusing on a grown-up Peter who has forgotten his childhood. Now known as "Peter Banning", he is a successful corporate lawyer with a wife and two children. Captain Hook kidnaps his two children, and he must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit as Peter Pan in order to challenge his old enemy. Spielberg began developing the film in the early-1980s with Walt Disney and Paramount Pictures, which would have followed the storyline seen in the 1953 animated film and 1924 silent film .

Peter Pan entered pre-production in 1985, but Spielberg abandoned the project. James V. Hart developed the script with director Nick Castle and TriStar Pictures before Spielberg decided to direct in 1989. Hook was shot entirely on sound stages at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. The film received mainly negative reviews by critics, but was a success with audiences, grossing over $300 million worldwide, and was nominated for multiple categories at the 64th Academy Awards. The film has gained a strong cult following over the years. It also spawned merchandise, including video games and comic book adaptations Contents 6 Reception Plot Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) is a successful corporate lawyer whose relationship with his family, especially his two young children Jack ( Charlie Korsmo ) and Maggie ( Amber Scott ) is strained by continuous absences and broken promises. His wife Moira ( Caroline Goodall ) struggles to keep them together and grows frustrated at Peter for his callous behavior. The family flies to London to visit Moira's grandmother, Wendy Darling ( Maggie Smith ), aged ninety two or three (as Wendy is twelve or thirteen in the original novel) who helped Peter find a family when he was a young orphan.

Upon arrival, they meet an old man who has "lost his marbles", Tootles (Arthur Malet), Wendy's first orphan - and, unbeknownst to Peter at the time, one of the originagl Lost Boys. Peter, Moira, and Wendy attend a ceremony for the expansion of Wendy's orphanage at which Wendy stumbles for a moment, as if sensing something wrong. While they are out, Hook kidnaps the children, leaving a signed note. Wendy tells Peter that he is in fact Peter Pan and that his old enemy has returned and taken his children for revenge, but he fails to remember anything. Tinker Bell ( Julia Roberts ) appears before Peter that night and knocks him unconscious and flies him to a pirate port in Neverland . There he awakens in disbelief, and is discovered by Captain Hook ( Dustin Hoffman ) and his second in command Smee ( Bob Hoskins ), who threaten the children unless he accepts Hook's challenge to a duel. Tinker Bell intervenes and is granted three days in which to prepare him for it.

The Lost Boys , now led by a boy named Rufio ( Dante Basco ) at first dismiss him as an old man who has no hope of regaining his former glory, but he begins to learn the magic of Neverland. Meanwhile, Hook uses Jack's frustration over his father's continuous broken promises to steal his affection. Peter is heartbroken when he sees Hook treating Jack like a son and becomes determined to win his family back. He finally remembers his past and learns how to fly by recalling his "happy thought": being a father. Peter regains the leadership of the Lost Boys and they challenge Hook and his pirates in an all-out battle. Peter regains Jack's love and saves Maggie, but during the fight Rufio is killed by Hook. Peter and Hook engage in a climactic sword fight, where the Captain is defeated and eaten by the ticking Crocodile he thought he had killed. Peter returns home with Jack and Maggie and designates the largest member of the Lost Boys, Thud Butt (Raushan Hammond) as leader of the Lost Boys in Peter's absence. Returning home, Peter realizes the love he has for his family and the importance of having a youthful heart.

Toodles, a former Lost Boy, is dismayed at missing the adventure, but discovers pixie dust in his bag of lost marbles and uses it to go flying around London. Wendy remarks to Peter that his adventures are now over, but Peter says to live would be a great adventure too. Cast Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan : He has forgotten his childhood in Neverland, and becomes a successful corporate lawyer with a wife and two kids. Captain Hook kidnaps his two children, thus Peter Banning must reclaim his youthful spirit as Peter Pan in order to challenge Hook. Dustin Hoffman as James Hook : A villainous pirate who has had a long enemy-relationship with Peter Pan. Hook's motives over the years after escaping from his death include revenge against Peter, by kidnapping his two children. Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell : A fairy who helps Peter gain memory of his childhood and "happy thoughts". She is in love with Peter, but understands why he must continue his relationship with his family. Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning : Peter's son who begins to rebel against his father by looking towards Captain Hook as a father figure.

Amber Scott as Maggie Banning : Peter's daughter and Jack's younger sister who, after the kidnapping, does not fall under Hook's ploy of "why parents hate their children". Bob Hoskins as Smee : Hook's henchman who creates the plan of trying to convince Peter's children to "love" Hook. Hoskins also portrays a garbage sweeper in Kensington Gardens . Caroline Goodall as Moira Banning : Wendy's granddaughter and Peter's loving wife and mother to Jack and Maggie. Maggie Smith as Wendy Darling : After her adventures with Peter Pan, she becomes well-known for helping orphans. Gwyneth Paltrow appears as young Wendy Darling in flashbacks. Dante Basco as Rufio : Leader of the Lost Boys since Peter's departure from Neverland. Rufio is initially resentful of him but soon wishes he had a father like Peter. He is killed by Captain Hook during a duel. Arthur Malet as Tootles : A senile old man living with Wendy. A former Lost Boy, Tootles is also Wendy's "first orphan". Peter helps giving him the ability to fly by finding his lost marbles, which he left in Neverland.

Unnamed Lost Boys are played by Bogdan Georghe , Adam McNatt , and René González Jr . Gwyneth Paltrow makes a cameo appearance as young Wendy, and Genesis vocalist/drummer Phil Collins appears briefly as an English police inspector. Singers David Crosby and Jimmy Buffett appear as members of Hook's pirate crew, and Glenn Close similarly appears as a male pirate who is punished by Hook. George Lucas and Carrie Fisher were extras, seen from a distance kissing on the Westminster Bridge as Tink carries Peter to Neverland. Production "Teaser" poster J.M. Barrie considered writing a story in which Peter Pan grew up; his 1920 notes for the latest stage revival of Peter Pan included possible titles for another play: The Man Who Couldn't Grow Up or The Old Age of Peter Pan. The genesis of Hook started when director Steven Spielberg's mother often read him Peter and Wendy as bedtime story. Spielberg explained in 1985, "When I was eleven years old I actually directed the story during a school production. I have always felt like Peter Pan. I still feel like Peter Pan. It has been very hard for me to grow up, I'm a victim of the Peter Pan syndrome .

In the early 1980s, with Walt Disney Pictures , Spielberg began to develop the film which would have closely followed the storyline of the 1953 animated film and 1924 silent film . He also considered directing Peter Pan as a musical with Michael Jackson in the lead. The project was taken to Paramount Pictures, where James V. Hart wrote the first script with Dustin Hoffman already cast as Captain Hook . Peter Pan entered pre-production in 1985 for filming to begin at sound stages in England. Elliot Scott had been hired as production designer. With the birth of his first son, Max, in 1985, Spielberg decided to drop out. "I decided not to make Peter Pan when I had my first child," Spielberg commented. "I didn't want to go to London and have seven kids on wires in front of blue screens. I wanted to be home as a dad." Around this time, Spielberg considered directing Big, which carried similar motifs and themes with Peter Pan. In 1987, Spielberg "permanently abandoned" Peter Pan, feeling he expressed his childhood and adult themes in Empire of the Sun. Meanwhile, Paramount and Hart moved forward on production with Nick Castle as director.

Hart began to work on a new storyline when his son, Jake, showed his family a drawing. "We asked Jake what it was and he said it was a crocodile eating Captain Hook, but that the crocodile really didn't eat him, he got away," Hart reflected. "As it happens, I had been trying to crack Peter Pan for years, but I didn't just want to do a remake. So I went, 'Wow. Hook is not dead. The crocodile is. We've all been fooled'. In 1986 our family was having dinner and Jake said, 'Daddy, did Peter Pan ever grow up?' My immediate response was, 'No, of course not'. And Jake said, 'But what if he did?' I realized that Peter did grow up, just like all of us baby boomers who are now in our forties. I patterned him after several of my friends on Wall Street, where the pirates wear three-piece suits and ride in limos." By 1989, Hart and Castle changed the title of Peter Pan to Hook, and took it from Paramount to TriStar Pictures, ran by Mike Medavoy, who was Spielberg's first talent agent.

Robin Williams signed on, but Williams and Hoffman had creative differences with Castle. Medavoy saw Hook as a vehicle for Spielberg and Castle was fired, but paid a $500,000 settlement. Spielberg briefly worked together with Hart to rewrite the script before hiring Malia Scotch Marmo to rewrite Captain Hook's dialog and Carrie Fisher for Tinker Bell 's dialog. The Writers Guild of America gave Hart and Marmo screenplay credit, while Hart and Castle were credited with story. Fisher went uncredited. Filming started on February 19, 1991, occupying nine sound stages at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Stage 30 housed the Neverland Lost Boys playground, while Stage 10 supplied Captain Hook's ship cabin. Hidden hydraulics were installed to rock the setpiece to simulate a swaying ship, but the filmmakers found the movement distracted the dialogue, so the idea was dropped. Stage 27 housed the full-sized pirate ship Jolly Roger and the surrounding Pirate Wharf. Industrial Light & Magic provided the visual effects sequences. Hook was financed by Amblin Entertainment and TriStar Pictures, with TriStar distributing the film.

Impressed with his work on Cats, Spielberg brought John Napier as a "visual consultant". The original production budget was set at $48 million, but ended up between $60–80 million. This was also largely contributed by the shooting schedule, which ran 40 days over its original 76 day schedule. Spielberg explained, "It was all my fault. I began to work at a slower pace than I usually do." He also found it difficult to work with Julia Roberts, who was suffering from a mental disorder after her breakup with Dylan McDermott. Themes Spielberg found close personal connection to the film. The troubled relationship between Peter and his son echoed Spielberg's relationship with his father. Previous films of Spielberg that explored a diminishing father-son relationship included E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Peter Banning's "quest for success" paralleled Spielberg starting out as a film director and transforming into a Hollywood business magnate. This led to Spielberg's divorce from Amy Irving, which would possibly lead to Banning's relationship with his family. "I think a a lot of people today are losing their imagination because they are work-driven.

They are so self-involved with work and success and arriving at the next plateau that children and family almost become incidental. I have even experienced it myself when I have been on a very tough shoot and I've not seen my kids except on weekends. They ask for my time and I can't give it to them because I'm working." Similar to Peter Banning at the beginning of Hook, Spielberg also has a fear of flying. He feels that Peter Pan's "enduring quality" in the storyline is simply to fly. "Anytime anything flies, whether it's Superman, Batman, or E.T., it's got to be a tip of the hat to Peter Pan," Spielberg reflected. " Peter Pan was the first time I saw anybody fly.

Before I saw Superman, before I saw Batman, and of course before I saw any superheroes, my first memory of anybody flying is in Peter Pan." Soundtrack "We Don't Want To Grow Up" (Tinkerbell theme) * "Banning Back Home" "Hook-Napped" (Prologue Theme, Captain Hook theme) "The Arrival of Tink and the Flight to Neverland" (Tinkerbell theme, Childhood theme) "Presenting the Hook" (Pirate theme, Captain Hook theme) "From Mermaids to Lost Boys" (Mermaid theme, Neverland Theme, Lost Boys theme) "The Lost Boy Chase" (Lost Boys chase theme) "Smee's Plan" (Captain Hook theme) "The Banquet" (Lost Boys theme) "The Never-Feast" (Lost Boys, Childhood, When You're Alone *) "Remembering Childhood" (Childhood theme, Neverland theme, Peter Pan theme) "You are the Pan" (Peter Pan theme #2) "When You're Alone" "The Ultimate War" (Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, Childhood, Lost Boys) "Farewell Neverland" (Neverland, Lost Boys, Peter Pan theme #2, and

 Tinkerbell) The film score was composed by John Williams.

The lyrics for tracks 2 and 15 were written by Leslie Bricusse. Reception Spielberg, Williams and Hoffman did not take salaries for the film. Their deal called for the trio to split 40% of TriStar Pictures' gross revenues. They were to receive $20 million from the first $50 million in gross theatrical film rentals, with TriStar keeping the next $70 million in rentals before the three resumed receiving their percentage. Hook was released in North America on December 11, 1991, earning $13.52 million in its opening weekend. The film went on gross $119.65 million in North America and $181.2 million in foreign countries, accumulating a worldwide total of $300.85 million. Hook was declared a financial success, and is the fourth-highest grossing "pirate-themed" film, behind all three films in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In North America totals, Hook was the sixth-highest grossing film in 1991, and fourth-highest worldwide. Based on 37 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 22% of the critics enjoyed Hook.

Roger Ebert felt "the crucial failure in Hook was its inability to re-imagine the material, to find something new, fresh or urgent to do with the Peter Pan myth. Lacking that, Spielberg should simply have remade the original story, straight, for the '90s generation. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt Hook would "only appeal to the baby boomer generation" and highly criticized the sword-fighting choreography. Vincent Canby felt the story structure was not well balanced, feeling Spielberg depended too much on art direction. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was one of few who gave the film a positive review. Hinson elaborated on crucial themes of children, adulthood and loss of innocence. However he observed that Spielberg "was stuck too much in a theme park world". Despite some negative reviews, Hook was nominated for five categories at the 64th Academy Awards. This included Art Direction, Costume Design, Visual Effects, Makeup, and Original Song ("When You're Alone"). Hook lost the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film to Aladdin, in which Robin Williams co-starred, while cinematographer Dean Cundey was nominated for his work by the American Society of Cinematographers.

Dustin Hoffman was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Musical or Comedy). John Williams was given a Grammy Award nomination, but with Julia Roberts receiving a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress. Also, certain critics praised the performances of Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman in particular, saying that Williams' performance does not become truly comedic until two-thirds into the film, proving that he can be both dramatic and comedic in a film and that Hoffman is truly transformed into Hook and is unrecognizable. Uses some licensed material by Wikipedia editors. Hook Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) | Roger Ebert Tweet The ads for Steven Spielberg ’s "Hook" ask the question, "What if Peter Pan grew up?" but the answer, alas, is that then he would probably star in a lugubrious retread of a once-magical idea. A movie very much like this one, in which "Peter Banning" is a busy executive with more time for his cellular phone than for his children, until fate launches him back once again into combat with Captain Hook.

Advertisement Robin Williams plays the harassed businessman, and Maggie Smith is the old granny who’s able to suggest the most wonderful possibilities when she whispers, "Peter, dear - don't you know who you are?" Actually, he can't remember a thing that happened before he was 12, but Hook can and kidnaps Banning’s two children because he wants to lure Peter back to Neverland for a rematch. The sad thing about the screenplay for "Hook" is that it’s so correctly titled: This whole construction is really nothing more than a hook on which to hang a new version of the Peter Pan story. No effort is made to involve Peter’s magic in the changed world he now inhabits, and little thought has been given to Captain Hook’s extraordinary persistence in wanting to revisit the events of the past. The opening of the film promises more. Spielberg sets the scene in modern-day America, where the executive lifestyle leaves no time for fathers to spend with children.

Then Robin Williams takes his wife and children back to London to visit Granny Wendy, who adopted him as an orphan, and as the kids sleep in the very same bedroom where the original story began, we get the Spielberg visual trademark of the blinding light on the other side of the rattling window: The promise of magic, just outside. Advertisement After the children disappear and Peter finds Hook’s kidnap note and is told by Granny Wendy who he really is and why he must follow, I was poised for a breathtaking first view of Neverland , but what I got was a dreary disappointment. The long, long, long Neverland sequences take place in a cluttered rag-and-bone shop of art direction; there are too many characters, too many props, too many signs, too many costumes, bad traffic direction, and no sense of place or space. The whole thing looks like what it is, a movie set, right down to the unconvincing backdrops, and for some reason there’s a shift to red and brown in the color spectrum, so Neverland (which in my imagination, at least, is on a lush green island) looks as if it’s in the midst of a drought.

The other key characters appear: Hook, played by Dustin Hoffman as if he were doing an imitation instead of a performance, and Tinker Bell, played by Julia Roberts more as a duty than a pleasure. There’s not much wit here. What exists is supplied by Robin Williams, who does the best he can to be amazed and enchanted by his shabby surroundings, and by Smee ( Bob Hoskins ), who is sort of Hook’s official sidekick. There’s also a large group of orphans in Neverland who are massed as if for group photographs and shunted here and there as if waiting for auditions for "Oliver!" The crucial failure in "Hook" is its inability to re-imagine the material, to find something new, fresh or urgent to do with the Peter Pan myth. Lacking that, Spielberg should simply have remade the original story, straight, for this generation. The lack of creativity in the screenplay is dramatized in the sword fighting sequences between Hook and Peter, which are endless and not particularly well-choreographed. They do not convince me that either Williams or Hoffman is much of a fencer.

Has any Hollywood director ever given thought to bringing in a Hong Kong expert like King Hu to do second-unit work on the swordfights? The cheapest Asian martial arts movie has infinitely more excitement in its sword sequences than the repetitive lunge-and-shuffle that goes on here. Then comes the ending of the movie. Or the endings. One after another. Farewells. Advertisement Poignancy. Lessons to be learned. Speeches to be made. Lost marbles to be rediscovered. Tears to be shed. The conclusion of "Hook" would be embarrassingly excessive even for a movie in which something of substance had gone before. Here we get the uncanny suspicion that "Hook" was written and directed according to the famous recipe of the country preacher who told the folks what he was going to tell them, told them, and then told them what he had told them.

Popular Blog Posts HOOK AT 20: A Look Back at Spielberg’s Underrated Classic | The Fairy Tale Site True Blood HOOK AT 20: A Look Back at Spielberg’s Underrated Classic on November 15, 2011 in Movies Comments Off on HOOK AT 20: A Look Back at Spielberg’s Underrated Classic When Steven Spielberg’s Hook was released to theatres in 1991, it was pretty much dismissed by critics as an empty exercise in Hollywood excess. But closer examination of the film as it celebrates its 20th anniversary reveals it to be one of the director’s most under-appreciated efforts. Hook tells the tale of mid-40s corporate lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams), who has become so consumed with work and winning on a corporate level that he’s lost touch with his family, his inner child and knowledge of the fact that he is actually a grown up version of Peter Pan.

But when Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps Peter’s children to lure the erstwhile Pan out of hiding, it falls upon Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) and the Lost Boys of Neverland to make Peter remember his past so that he can soar in the skies and engage Hook in battle. “I was a Peter Pan freak,” admits screenwriter Jim Hart, “and when I was reading the story to my kids, I became fascinated with the idea of finding a way to extend it. When my son was two and a half, he did one of those squiggly pictures. We looked at it and said, ‘What’s that?’ and he said, ‘It’s the crocodile eating Captain Hook.’ Then Jake added a disclaimer. He said, ‘The crocodile didn’t eat Captain Hook. Captain Hook killed the crocodile and got away.” Hart became intrigued by the notion that Peter Pan’s ultimate nightmare would be that Captain Hook is not dead. That conversation was in 1982, and four years later Jake brought up Peter Pan again, asking Hart what would happen if Peter Pan grew up. “That was the question that unlocked the door for me,” he exclaims.

In their own words, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg and Hart himself reflect on the making of Hook. ROBIN WILLIAMS (PETER BANNING/PETER PAN) “The hardest part in the beginning was playing the Pre-Pan – the PP – because I would try things and they would say, ‘That’s wonderful, but it’s too imaginative, he’s much more tighter-wrapped than that. To be truthful, even though he’s very successful, he’s a very disconnected man. He has no sense of himself before the age of 11 or 12, and to work on that part was the hardest. By the time I got to the flying and the fighting, that was like, ‘You can go now; you’re free.’ “The dangerous thing with Pan is how do you make it so that it isn’t too cute? He still has to have a dangerous edge, because he is lethal. How do you put that in? How do you keep all those different elements going?

Because by the end of the movie, he’s kind of a combination of both characters — he’s not Pan, he’s not Banning, but he’s found who and what he is, which was the whole point of the script. “Peter Banning was based a little bit on my father only in the sense that my father was working all the time. I never saw him very much, because he was always away. He was kind of a troubleshooter for Lincoln Mercury, so he had to go from dealership to dealership. He’d come back with some great Corgi toys, but I would have traded the toys for a week with him. So it was a little bit of that. He was very stern in some ways, but also very loving. “This film isn’t about Yuppies. It’s about the fact that you can lose track of your family. He is a Yuppie, he has those tendencies, he suffers from the Peter Pan Syndrome, he has all the goodies but no sense of who he is.

The nice thing that Steven gave me a chance to do was the before, that part to be so lost, and then transition through to the end.” JULIA ROBERTS (TINKERBELL) “For the most part the appeal of Tinkerbell was a sense of spirit, a feistiness she does have in the Disney version, where she’s very aggressive in her way. In the book I think Barrie said she’s only big enough to feel one emotion at a time, so there’s never too much confusion as to what she’s feeling. It was nice to know always what you were doing rather than underplaying. In that way she’s quite clear and expressed herself clearly. “The theme appeals to me a little bit, but to me growing up, figuring out things, is a better way, so I don’t think growing up is a bad thing. I think the sense of innocence is something that as a person you have to try to preserve. I think I’m able to still do that up to a point, almost to a fault. You do that and you sort of find yourself in situations where other people don’t share that same sort of dreamy vision of things.

They can have a very aggressive or sharper view of it and those things don’t meld together. It can just be difficult to maintain in the world today.” DUSTIN HOFFMAN (CAPTAIN HOOK) “I was very surprised about certain things of the Barrie novel that had an impact on me, which was the dichotomy of this thing of youth, joy and innocence. I think in the book Barrie is talking about an absence of a sense of mortality. What happens when we grow up? We want to grow up and my kids want to grow up, because we feel so powerless. They want to be in charge, eat cake for breakfast if they feel like it, they want a car, they want to be free. Somehow when we grow up we’re less free than we ever were. “I find redeeming qualities in Hook. He doesn’t want to kill Pan outright when he looks at him, he wants to kill youth, joy and innocence. In the Barrie story it says that Hook identified himself with Charles II.

Anthony Powell who did the costumes said, ‘Do you want to adhere to that?’ I said, ‘I see no reason not to.’ That was the approach, to keep him traditional in that sense, to see him as he saw himself, even though he’s a pirate.” STEVEN SPIELBERG (DIRECTOR) “I wanted this to be more of a show than a film. It’s a movie, certainly, but I saw it more like a show. With that in mind, I wasn’t trying for a reality of any kind. Neverland is very subjective. We all have ideas of what Neverland should look like, and this film was just one combined vision of Neverland. If I wanted it to be very realistic, I would never have built sets, I would have gone to the Caribbean and shot real ocean, real sky, real lagoons and things like that. Then I would have had something like Treasure Island, I wouldn’t have had Neverland. It would have been too earth-bound. “You can only be who you are as a filmmaker. I still don’t think I have to go out of my way to try and change what is a positive value and not a negative [in terms of tapping into childhood memories].

I think feeling young and making a movie that keeps everybody young who makes them, having kids, playing on the floor with them on their own level and talking to them the way kids love to talk to each other — I think those are all pluses. I’m not in any hurry to grow up. This movie didn’t exorcise any demon that I needed to express in order not to be a kid anymore. If anything, it gave me some more years of being a little closer to my memories of childhood.” JIM HART (SCREENWRITER) “I always envisioned Dustin as being James Barrie, because Barrie was in his own mind Captain Hook, this small man playing this bigger than life character that overpowered him. You think of Dustin as six feet tall. In my opinion, Dustin is doing the role of Captain Hook the way I believe Barrie envisioned it: a dark and sinister, very complex psychotic man who’s obsessed with revenge against Peter Pan; who hates him for being so young. Captain Hook is a bloodthirsty villain who should be the darkest memory in the back of a child’s mind. That’s the character I wrote, a character who makes it fun to be bad.

That’s his power, he can take any child, except for Peter Pan, and make him be bad without fear of parental retribution or punishment. “We were all attracted to this for some reason. I think to go back and invest yourself in finding that child inside of you is the only way of being a successful adult. It’s the only way to be a well-balanced adult. We need to embrace that child and never push it away again. We need that child to balance ourselves as adults. Everybody’s got a Captain Hook in their life. Hook represents that other side of yourself you have to deal with.” Share ! Hook Remind Me Hook Hook takes the Peter Pan tale in a direction few could have imagined it before Steven Spielberg's adaptation appeared in 1991. Robin Williams stars as middle-aged real-estate speculator Peter Banning, a man who can't remember his birth parents because he was placed with an adoptive family by Wendy Darling (Maggie Smith), whose granddaughter, Moira (Caroline Goodall), he later marries. On a return visit to the Darling residence in London, Banning's children are kidnapped from the nursery where Wendy claims she and her brothers conjured the stories from which J.M.

Barrie created his Peter Pan tales. That's when Banning learns the stories are true and that he is Peter Pan, but grew up so that he could marry Moira. He's then carried by Tinker Bell (Julia Roberts) back to Neverland to meet Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), whose ransom demand is a fight to the finish. But Peter's been out of circulation for quite a while and can't even remember how to fly, let alone vanquish Hook, so the Lost Boys, (there are now a lot of them) get him back into shape and he's finally ready to save his kids and return to his former life but as a much loosier and self-confident person. Hook was big on budget, scale and top marquee names. Even its extras were big: David Crosby, Jimmy Buffet and Glenn Close show up as pirates, Carrie Fisher and George Lucas appear in additional cameos and Phil Collins pops up as a police inspector. Due to its size and the number of cast members, costumes, etc., the production was hard to manage. It ran 40 days over its 76 day shooting schedule and was rife with personality conflicts.

Julia Roberts was said to be emotionally overwrought during filming and reportedly became known as "Tinker Hell". Dustin Hoffman was a perfectionist and had his own writer on hand, and the Lost Boys, seemingly endless numbers of them, were an ever changing lineup of amateur actors. Hook was apparently not a happy time for Spielberg, either, who commented on the experience in Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride, stating, "For some reason this movie was such a dinosaur coming out of the gate. It dragged me along behind it...Every day I came on the set I thought, 'Is this flying out of control?'" The story of Peter Pan is an important one to Spielberg and film critics have spent much time charting its development through his career. Pan is a figure with whom Spielberg has readily aligned himself, as noted in a Time interview from 1985: "I have always felt like Peter Pan...It has been very hard for me to grow up...I'm a victim of the Peter Pan Syndrome." It was the filmmaker's favorite tale as a child and when he was 11, he had his first taste of directing it, that time as a school production.

In the early 80s Spielberg developed a live-action version of Peter Pan for Disney and later for Paramount and considered casting Michael Jackson in the title role. He had already discovered that Hoffman would make his ideal Hook. The project was abandoned with the birth of Spielberg's first child, Max, in 1985. In McBride's biography he recalls, "Peter Pan came at a time when I had my first child and I didn't want to go to London...I wanted to be home as a dad, not a surrogate dad." The decision is one that the theme of Hook wholeheartedly endorses. Much has been made about Spielberg's parents' divorce, its effect on him and his own struggle to keep marriage and family intact while managing a superstar career. The collision between responsibility and eternal boyhood that has defined Spielberg's personal and creative life is key to understanding the director's attraction to Hook, so much so, that Spielberg asked John Bradshaw, the popular psychologist who sent everyone looking for his or her inner child, for advice on the script and had him on set, even casting his daughter in the film. Not surprisingly, those portions of the film that involve Peter Banning and his family are considered the most genuine and affecting aspects of Hook.

Apparently Michael Jackson, also notably obsessed with Peter Pan, was disappointed that he wasn't able to play the role on screen and not just on his Neverland Ranch. Vanity Fair reported in a 2000 article that he tried to put a lethal voodoo curse on Spielberg as a result of not winning the lead role. Largely considered one of Spielberg's least successful films, Hook nonetheless did well at the box office. Made for a budget of $70 million, it grossed $119 million on U.S. screens. It was nominated for five Oscars®, including those for Art Direction, Costumes, Visual Effects, Makeup and Music. For fans of John Williams, the score for Hook is considered one of his best. Producer: Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen Director: Steven Spielberg Screenplay: Jim V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo, J.M. Barrie (books and play), Jim V. Hart and Nick Castle (screen story) Cinematography: Dean Cundey Art Direction: Andrew Precht and Thomas E.

Sanders Music: John Williams Film Editing: Michael Kahn Cast: Dustin Hoffman (Captain Hook), Robin Williams (Peter Banning), Julia Roberts (Tinkerbell), Bob Hoskins (Smee), Maggie Smith (Granny Wendy), Caroline Goodall (Moira Banning), Charlie Korsmo (Jack 'Jackie' Banning), Amber Scott (Maggie Banning). C-142m. Letterboxed. Closed Captioning. Amazon.com: Hook: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins: Amazon Digital Services LLC By Cole Trudeau on March 15, 2016 Format: Amazon Video Verified Purchase A little explanation why I watched this movie again, that i loved when I was a kid (although i never was a big Peter Pan fan). Last weekend we watched "Pan" with my 9 year old Stepson. And i was very disappointed. The movies and characters are cold, there is no one i could warm up to. especially the wannabe Indiana Hook and a terrible Jack Sparrow copy Blackbeard made the movie lack character. When i asked my stepson if he ever saw HOOK he said no. So i had to find this movie and thankfully amazon prime video has it included.

HOOK is everything PAN isn't. The characters are worked out great, Robin Williams plays Peter and his transformation amazing. But Dustin Hoffman as Hook is in my eyes even better! Yes, he is the bad guy, but you just have to love him. Those two alone carry a movie already. Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell is another perfect cast.The story makes a great family movie about the transformation of a business man who has no time for his family because his job is more important. Yes, there are uncountable movies that have this, but the way it plays into the Peter Pan Universe makes it so good. Maybe it is a generation problem because "adventure" movies are just different today. Pan feels like an adventure movie, Hook is more like a fairy-tale and feels like the crew and cast put their heart into it. If you have amazon prime its a no brainer to give this movie a try. even if not, its good invested money for a family movie evening. Amazon.com: Hook (Blu-ray + DVD): Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Phil Collins, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R.

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Amazon.com Steven Spielberg's deeply flawed but sporadically fun and moving update of the Peter Pan legend stars Robin Williams as the grown-up Pan, a corporate-takeover type who must embrace his old identity in order to save his kids from Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). The stars put on a good show, including Hoffman's read of Hook's hysterical personality, Julia Roberts mini-turn as a tiny Tinker Bell, and Maggie Smith's touching performance as the aged Wendy. The visual contrast between the adult Pan's bustling outside world and the insulated fantasy of Neverland is striking, but Spielberg's ideas about the Lost Boys--politically correct in their ethnic diversity, energetic on skateboards--are contrived and cheapening. On the plus side, the story's theme about adults finding their innocence again through their children is very touching (though some people have found it cloying). If you can look beyond the glaring problems, there's plenty to like here.

--Tom Keogh Special Features Format: Blu-ray, AC-3, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Language: English Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, English, Spanish Dubbed: French, Portuguese, Spanish Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English Region: All Regions Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: November 1, 2011 Run Time: 142 minutes Page 1 of 1 Start over Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon.com. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . By Jay Rudin on April 24, 2001 Format: VHS Tape The subtitle to the play "Peter Pan" is "The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up". Spielberg's sequel could well be called "The Man Who Grew Up Too Much". The story of Peter Pan is reversed, as are many roles.

Robin Williams has the easy task of playing the thoughtless parent, the moderate task of playing the grownup Peter Pan, and the incredibly difficult task of making the transition between the two believable. Dustin's Hoffman's Capt. Hook knows, as do all of us who remember his soliloquy, that no little children love him. His concern with how he will be remembered, and with Good Form, ring quite true to the original. The character is suave, urbane, vicious, captivating, and ultimately tragic. At first I was annoyed at the modern elements in Never-Never-Land, but I soon realized that they had to be there, as Never-Never-Land was always a compilation of everything Lost Boys found exciting. In the twenties, that included Red Indians, but if they were lost in the 1980s, well then, baseball and skateboards should be included. The original play was Edwardian, but the movie makes no sense unless it's updated. The role-reversal and eventual re-reversal is fascinating. In the play, the same actor always plays both Hook and the thoughtless and cruel father, Mr. Darling.

But here, Peter is the uncaring father and a corporate pirate, while Hook takes the children to Never-Never-Land. The lost boys are, at first, quarrelsome and threatening, while the pirates are a happy adventuresome lot, even sentimental in the lullaby sequence. But while the Lost Boys help Peter recover himself (and to recover their own innocence), Hook's attempt to win over Peter's kids is, in the end, a failure, and we are brought full circle. Read more ›

Question: Which character did Julia Roberts play in the Steven Spielberg film 'Hook'?
Answer: Tinkerbell