Peter, once again, attends an event, but isn’t quite present. It was time to return to that “second star to the right and straight on till morning…”
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collapsible screen and digital projector to give the movie every chance of impressing me once again. So, for this review, I broke out my 7 ft. I’d seen it on TV once or twice since, and I own the DVD, but I’d forgotten more than I remembered. That was 30 years ago, and I remember enjoying the movie well enough at the time, but, like leaving Neverland, I’ve since had a strange amnesia about “Hook”.
The film would see a middle-aged Peter Banning ( the late, great Robin Williams) living as a stressed-out corporate trader with a wife and kids in San Francisco, until Peter’s long forgotten past in the presumed-mythical Neverland catches up with him… Like Peter’s amnesia in the film, I’d forgotten more about this 30 year-old movie than I remembered…
Hart ( “Contact”) & Nick Castle ( “The Last Starfighter”) script was to be a sequel to Barrie’s tale and the cartoon. As a fan of director/producer Steven Spielberg’s other films ( “JAWS,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), I was looking forward to this long-gestated take on the classic children’s story. Barrie’s Peter Pan stories, though I was familiar enough with the 1953 Disney animated feature, which I saw as a kid. In December of 1991, I remember going to see “Hook” about a week or so after it’d opened.
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