DECEMBER 10 AT NOON | GENERAL ADMISSION: $10 • LOFT MEMBERS
AND CHILDREN 12 & UNDER: $8
Presented in 70mm! With a greater aspect ratio and higher resolution than
35mm film, 70mm is sharper, richer and more immersive – the ultimate in
film projection.
Robin Williams stars as a grown-up Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg’s
high-flying tale of magic, adventure and derring-do, a cinematic “sequel of
sorts” to J.M. Barrie’s 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.
In Hook, the sprightly hero who refused to grow up is now a harried,
middle-aged lawyer with a wife and two children, not to mention a cellphone
permanently glued to his ear. Peter Banning (Williams), as he’s now known,
is also woefully lacking a sense of magic or imagination, and he has
mysteriously forgotten his childhood in which he took to the skies as Peter
Pan. But Peter is forced to face his Neverland past when his children are
abducted by the nefarious Captain Hook (an extravagantly evil Dustin
Hoffman), and it’s up to Granny Wendy Darling (Maggie Smith) to convince
the disbelieving lawyer that he was indeed once the legendary Peter Pan. And
so the adventure begins anew, as Peter rediscovers his inner Pan, and once
again enters the fairy tale world of Neverland to save his children, with a
little help from his old pal Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts). Spielberg’s
popcorn continuation of the Peter Pan tale is a rip-roaring good time,
updated for modern-day children of all ages and heightened by immersive set
design and a colorful cast of supporting players, which also includes Gwyenth
Paltrow as the young Wendy Darling and Bob Hoskins as Hook’s henchman Smee.
(Dir. by Steven Spielberg, 1991, USA, 144 mins., Rated PG)
https://loftcinema.org/film/hook/
