Hook

Hook (1991)

Timing: 2:22 (142 min)

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Release date

1991-04-10

Country

United States

Production

Amblin Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, Allied Stars

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Budget

$70 000 000

Revenue

$300 854 823

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Director

Steven Spielberg

Actors

Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Caroline Goodall, Charlie Korsmo, Amber Scott, Laurel Cronin, Phil Collins
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Producer

Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gerald R. Molen, James V. Hart, Dodi Fayed

Operator

Dean Cundey

Composer

John Williams

Artist

Daniel T. Dorrance

Audition

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, Michael Hirshenson

Editing

Michael Kahn
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• The film was novelized by Terry Brooks in 1991.
• The film is a loose sequel to J.M. Barrie's fairy tale "Peter and Wendy".
• When the family flies to London, Dustin Hoffman voices the pilot, and his voice also portrays Captain Hook.
• Steven Spielberg admitted that he was disappointed with the resulting film. He struggled so much with the unruly young actors that he later stated, not entirely in jest, that he wasn't sure he'd ever want to have children again. Regardless, after the death of Robin Williams (1951-2014), Spielberg said he was glad he made the film and had met and befriended Williams.
• The kissing couple who began to fly after being sprinkled with pixie dust is George Lucas and Carrie Fisher (1956-2016).
• Maggie Smith, who played 92-year-old Wendy's grandmother, was 56 years old at the time of filming.
• When Maggie Smith, playing Wendy’s grandmother, tells the children about Peter Pan, the actress holds in her hand one of the original editions of J.M. Barrie’s fairy tale (1860-1937). Judging by the cover, this is the first edition of the book, published in 1911.
• John Voight, with whom Dustin Hoffman had worked before, asked Hoffman if he could bring James Haven’s and Angelina Jolie’s children to the set. Hoffman didn’t object and even stayed in his Captain Hook costume for the visitors. Jolie was 16 at the time, and she seemed to Hoffman “tall, slender and with braces.” Jolie told him then that she also wanted to become an actress. Hoffman told his wife that evening that Jolie “doesn’t understand how difficult it is to be an actress.”
• One of the screenwriters, James V. Hart, was inspired to work on this project after a conversation with his son Jake, who once asked him what would happen if Peter Pan grew up.
• Julia Roberts was nicknamed “Tinker Bell” because it was not easy to communicate with her, as she worked mostly alone in front of a green screen.
• In the scene where Peter Pan passes his sword to one of the boys, only Robin Williams and Steven Spielberg knew which boy would receive it, so the boys’ emotions were genuine, not acted.
• The film is a loose sequel to J.M. Barrie's fairy tale "Peter and Wendy".