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Hook Details

1991

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Starring	Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Robin Williams
Director	Steven Spielberg
Genres	Comedy, Family

Hook

Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of being Peter Pan, and he is also in danger of losing his wife Moira (Caroline Goodall) and two children, Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott). Peter and his family travel to London to visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith) who recalls Peter's lost youth and asks him, Peter, dear, don't you know who you are? With Peter's children asleep in the same bedroom where the original Peter Pan story began, there is a blinding flash. Peter comes into the room to discover a note from Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), informing Peter that he has kidnapped his children. Granny Wendy now tells him who he really is and encourages him to re-discover his happy thoughts, transform himself into the Peter Pan of the past, and go rescue his children. With the encouragement of Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), Peter recalls the birth of his son and once again takes wing. Then it's off to Never Land to rescue his kids.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Starring	Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Robin Williams, Robert Chapin, Maggie Smith, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director	Steven Spielberg
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 16 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 22 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Big Adventures
Genres	Comedy, Family
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Dubbed	French, German
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1991 To Rent: DVD: 24 Apr 2000 Blu-ray: 31 Oct 2011 Blu-ray: 03 Oct 2011

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- Sprawling, overlong, often camp extravaganza with splendid special effects and settings that may appeal to the small child in most of us, even if it is time that Spielberg himself grew up.
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  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  An entertaining journey
  
  Hook is entertaining. The children will love the film with its over sized and colourful sets and at the same time will keep the adults mildly entertained. ... read more »
  
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  Childhood Favourite
  
  I really loved this as a child, and as an adult loved it again!
  
  I think deep down there's still a child in all of us - why should we have to grow... read more »
  
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  - 11 Jul 2011 at 09:33
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  Hooked!
  
  The Peter Pan story with that extra touch of magic. This is the reason why Robin Williams,recieves the plaudit he does. The genius of pairing him with Dustin ... read more »
  
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  shocking
  
  one of the worst movies i have seen had to switch it off 10mins in
  
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Paltrow's Silence of the Lambs terror landed her Hook role
- WENN Newsdesk
- 04 Dec 2011
Gwyneth Paltrow won her big break as a young Wendy Darling in godfather Steven Spielberg's Hook during a drive home from a screening of The Silence Of The Lambs. The director, who was driving, caught Paltrow's terrified expression in the rear-view mirror as she quizzed him about the film - and he knew he'd found the star of his 1991 Peter Pan film. He recalls, "Bruce (Paltrow - Gwyneth's late father) and Kate (Capshaw - Spielberg's wife) and I had taken Gwynnie to see The Silence of the Lambs.. Read more
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  Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to ...

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  Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of ...