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A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, HOOK stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook. Joining the fun is Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Bob Hoskins as the pirate Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy Darling, who must convince the middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, of friendship, and of magic. A classic tale updated for children of all ages, HOOK was nominated for 5 1991 Academy Awards® including best visual effects.
"A film that will entertain generations..." Gary Franklin, KABC-TV
"Get ready for adventure. Steven Spielberg has scored another triumph." Gene Shalit, The Today Show
Editor's Note
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 visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith), Peter's son and daughter are kidnapped by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Peter's faithful pal, Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), helps him return to Neverland--"Second star to the right and straight on ?til morning"--to the world Peter has forgotten. There the Lost Boys welcome Peter back and try to get him in shape for his fight with Captain Hook. Peter must somehow remember his long-forgotten boyhood in Neverland and learn how to fly again before he can rescue his children away from the evil clutches of Captain Hook. Bob Hoskins costars as Hook's right-hand man, Smee, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first film role, plays the young Wendy. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song for John Williams's "When You're Alone."
Plot Summary
Steven Spielberg directed this delightfully grown-up fairy tale about an adult Peter Pan and his evil nemesis, Captain Hook. Peter Banning (Robin Williams) is a 40-year-old corporate lawyer too busy with his work to notice his family. But when Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children, he is forced to remember who he really is: Peter Pan. With the help of Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), he returns to Neverland and leads the Lost Boys in a fight against Hook's dastardly pirates.
| Features | High bit rate digital transfer process that optimizes video quality | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai | | Scene Selections | | Interactive Menus | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 9/9/2003 |
| Running Time: 144 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1991 | | Catalog ID: 05926 | | UPC: 00043396059269 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1992) | | | Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis, Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | | | Anthony Powell, Nominee, Best Costume Design | | | Leslie Bricusse, John Williams, Nominee, Best Music, Song "When You're Alone" | |
Golden Globe (1992) | | | Dustin Hoffman, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Williams is a hoot..." 01/09/1992 p.54-5New York Times
"...Gargantuan....A hugely funny bravura performance by [Hoffman]..." 12/11/1991 p.C17 Los Angeles Times
"...Smith has the regal, otherworldly air of the perfect fairy-tale enchantress..." 12/11/1991 p.F1 Total Film
"...Dustin Hoffman is excellent..." 07/01/2000 p.110 Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
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. 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. - Roger Ebert
Rolling Stone 4 of 10
Playing a seven-inch Tinkerbell with pixie wings and pointy ears, Julia Roberts reminds the grown Peter Pan (Robin Williams) that the trick to flying is thinking happy thoughts. You get the feeling that the high-priced talents involved in Hook, including Dustin Hoffman in the villainous title role, are thinking profit participation. In updating Peter Pan for the Nineties, Steven Spielberg front-loads this $80 million epic with big stars, big sets and really big special effects (even Captain Hook's croc nemesis is humongous). The film has been engineered for merchandising potential and the widest possible appeal--note the conspicuously multiethnic Lost Boys. What's missing is the one thing that really counts: charm. - Peter Travers
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