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Tootles (Arthur Malet) has really lost his marbles… Cellphones of the ’80s were massive, brick-like monstrosities. The early 1990s was when tech companies began to make them small enough to fit in coat pockets. Note: Peter’s constant use of his cellphone took place a few years before ruing public events with cellphones was commonplace (as it is today), and usually just wealthy or important people had such pocket-sized annoyances. During the flight, Peter’s kids express growing resentment of their eternally distracted father…. A lifelong philanthropist, Wendy is having a new hospital wing for orphans dedicated in her name… a cause near and dear to her heart, as we learn. Later on, the family takes a direct Pan-Am (!) flight from San Francisco to London to spend the holidays with grandma Wendy Darling (Maggie Smith), who claims to be the living inspiration for the character of Wendy in J.M. Realizing his dad didn’t show, a heartbroken Jack strikes out. Things go from bad to worse when Peter misses his son’s big baseball game the following afternoon. Peter is attending but barely present, as his mind is focused on the merger ahead. Little Maggie is, of course, starring as “Wendy” ( as her own grandma) in a production of “Peter and Wendy” (huge foreshadowing…). Much to the annoyance of his wife Moira (Caroline Goodall) and son Jack (Charlie Cosmo), Peter takes a call during the performance. The opening scene takes place as corporate mergers lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) is attending (but not present at) a grade school play starring his young daughter Maggie (Amber Scott). This time, he’s being the cellphone a$$hole at his daughter’s play… 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.

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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.