Hook, by Steven Spielberg, 1991, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts
Hook is a 1991 family action/adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith. The film is based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and acts as a sequel to the events in the novel, focusing on a grown-up Peter Pan who has forgotten his childhood.
Plot
Successful lawyer Peter Banning (Williams) has become so engrossed in his work that he has lost touch with his wife Moira (Caroline Goodall) and his children Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott). The family travels to London to visit Granny Wendy Darling (Smith), Moira's grandmother, who also raised Peter and other orphans. While the adults are at a dinner banquet honoring Wendy and her work, Jack and Maggie are kidnapped, with the only clue being a dagger-bearing note signed "JAS Hook, Captain", informing Peter that his presence is necessary to retrieve his children. Peter does not accept Wendy's assertions that this is caused by the real Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) and that he himself is the real Peter Pan. He instead gets drunk that night, and is dragged to Neverland by the fairy Tinkerbell (Roberts) after an argument.
Peter then wakes up and is in a pirate port. He walks around and is stopped by a group of pirates trying to steal his shoes, but Tinkerbell saves him and helps him acquire a disguise. He observes a speech by Hook, revealing his plan of having Peter's children as bait, and Peter reveals himself. Hook is disgusted at his nemesis' physical condition, but Tinkerbell convinces Hook to allow Peter three days to re-train him. Peter eventually ends up in the Lost Boys' treetop village, where at first none of the Boys think that he is the real Peter Pan, especially Rufio, the current leader. Eventually, the Lost Boys do believe, and help re-train Peter, especially hampered by his inability to fly.
Back on the Jolly Roger, Hook and Smee attempt to convince Peter's children that their parents never loved them. Although Maggie does not fall for the ploy, the oft-scorned Jack listens, and with the added affect of a pirate baseball game, comes to take Hook somewhat as an adoptive father. Peter is hit in the head by a home run Jack hit, and as a result, eventually finds a tree house where Wendy and her brothers once lived. He soon finds himself flying with his new-found "happy thought:" being a father, the reason he left Neverland.
Peter returns to give Hook the battle he demanded; the Lost Boys eventually join in the melee. Rufio unwisely challenges Hook to a duel, where he is killed, but not before telling Peter that he wishes he had a father like Peter. Peter, having rescued his children, wants to leave without a fight, but realizing that Hook will not stop, consents again to the duel, which ends when the crocodile tower seemingly comes back to life and swallows Hook and shortly after it belches loudly.
It is time for the Bannings to return home, so Peter passes on his sword and the leadership of the Lost Boys, and flies back to London with his children, where they are reunited with Moira and Granny Wendy. Wikipedia
