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Plot Summary
Directed by Steven Spielberg and nominated for five Academy Awards®, Hook stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning, a 40-year-old corporate takeover lawyer who has lost any memory of being Peter Pan. Peter and his family travel to London to visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith) and his children are asleep in the same bedroom where the original Peter Pan story began, when 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 transform himself into the Peter Pan of the past. With the encouragement of Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), Peter once again takes wing, and it's off to Neverland to rescue his kids.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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30%- Reviews Counted: 40
- Fresh: 12
- Rotten: 28
- Average Rating: 4.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Hook is overwhelmed by a screenplay heavy with complicated exposition, by what are, in effect, big busy nonsinging, nondancing production numbers and some contemporary cant about rearing children and the high price paid for success.
Rotten: No matter how much cash Hook earns, it will take more than pixie dust to fly this overstuffed package into our dreams.
Rotten: The exposition is so underlined and re-underlined, you could teach yourself to fly waiting for something to happen.
Rotten: 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.
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- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 1991
- © 1991 TriStar Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved.