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• Adventure
• Fantasy

• 1991
• Steven Spielberg
• 135 mins
• U

Summary

Fantasy adventure starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Bob Hoskins. Workaholic lawyer Peter Banning and his family spend Christmas in London with an old relative, Granny Wendy. The adults arrive home one evening to find that the children have vanished and a note has been left by Captain James Hook. With the help of a fairy named Tinkerbell, Peter sets off for Neverland to reclaim his offspring.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

John Ferguson

Purists will shudder at what Steven Spielberg has done to JM Barrie's classic tale here, but their protests are likely to be ignored by those children who prefer old-fashioned derring-do to be brightened up with some 1990s trimmings. In this take on Peter Pan, Robin Williams plays the grown-up Peter, a ruthless business pirate who has no time for his family and no memory of his magical past. That changes, however, when his children are kidnapped and he gets a visit from Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts). As good as Williams is, the film is stolen by an almost unrecognisable Dustin Hoffman, whose Hook is suitably pantomimic (he is said to have modelled his performance partly on the larger-than-life screen image of Terry-Thomas) yet oddly sympathetic, a villain lost without his nemesis. The scenes between him and Bob Hoskins as Smee are a delight and, although the sentimentality gets a little sticky at times, this remains rousing entertainment.

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6.8/10

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Cast

rolenameCaptain James HookDustin HoffmanPeter Banning / Peter PanRobin WilliamsTinkerbellJulia RobertsSmeeBob HoskinsGranny WendyMaggie SmithMoira BanningCaroline GoodallJackCharlie KorsmoMaggieAmber ScottLizaLaurel CroninInspector GoodPhil CollinsTootlesArthur MaletPocketsIsaiah RobinsonAceJasen FisherRufioDante BascoThud ButtRaushan HammondDon't AskJames MadioToo SmallThomas TulakLatchboyAlex ZuckermanNo NapAhmad StonerYoung WendyGwyneth Paltrow

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rolenameDirectorSteven Spielberg

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Theatrical distributor

Columbia Pictures

Released on

1992-04-10

Languages

English

Guidance

Edited for flashing images.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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