No one in the history of time past present or future could have played that role better than Robin Williams. No one.

“I know why I grew up….I wanted to be a father.” If that doesn’t tug at your heart…

I’d forgotten just how much existential sadness there was in this film. Life, death, love, loss and the inevitability of time. Was Neverland a place for these children to escape the realities of ‘growing up’, or was it a place where the feelings of loss and abandonment remain with them forever unchanging? I will always remember that tragic last line from Tinker Bell when she says goodbye to Peter. “Do you remember that place between sleep and awake, that place you still remember dreaming? That’s where I will always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting…”

This scene hits so different rewatching it as an adult. Setting aside how the idea of kissing someone while they're asleep has changed, poor Wendy, having to stand there and watch the one who got away---someone she clearly cared about so much growing up---make this huge change to be with someone else, that he hadn't been willing to make for her. And then for that someone else to be her own grandchild. That just sounds painful.

Best backstory for Peter Pan that I consider canon.

The baby being blown away from his mum, and him lying on the floor in the rain are some of the most haunting images I've ever encountered. Beyond tragic.

Fun Fact: Max Hoffman, the actor who plays five-year-old Peter Pan, is the son of actor Dustin Hoffman, the actor who plays Hook in this movie.

As someone who recently became a father, this scene rips at my heart. The baby crying in the rain is soul-crushing.

This scene has me so emotional. Especially when Peter is laying out in the rain 😢

I cried at this scene This movie is a MASTERPIECE R.I.P. Robin Williams

I remember it crushed my soul as a kid that when he went home he thought his parents had forgotten all about him.

It's pretty rare for a movie to emotionally move me but the first time I rewatched this as an adult I cried like a baby when Wendy said that she forgot how to fly. It's such a good metaphor for the modern day human condition. We are so innocent as kids and grow up to become horrible people. What more could you say?

I still miss you Robin Williams

I love this adaptation of Peter Pan the most. Seeing a boy who always stayed a boy, become an adult and finally after so long, remember what it’s like. What it’s like to be a kid.

This scene made me cry as a kid, I couldn’t believe they never went to find him which is so heartbreaking. Same goes for poor Tinkerbell whose heart was broken when she saw him kiss Moria

The scene of baby Peter crying in the rain all alone is so sad. It touches my heart every time that I see it.

The look on Tink's face from 3:12-3:16 is like she's probably thinking "oh no, Peter has found a woman to marry which means he will be living with her and moving out of Neverland."

Watching this back…now I know why I care so much for Gwyneth Paltrow, Maggie Smith, Julia Roberts, and mister Robin Williams. Strange how we subconsciously seek comfort in things from our childhoods as adults. My dad would always brag about this film because he went to high school with James Hart, who co-wrote the screenplay.

Just watched this with my 5 and 7 year old boys lastnight. My 7 year old cried and wanted to rewatch this part. Their dad got choked up seeing his boy in tears. I had to give dad a hug lol.

Never even today, watching this movie in the early 90’s, would I thought Robin Williams would be Peter Pan. But when you see this movie, the nostalgia of his Peter Pan is almost overwhelming. He brought a whole new vision to the character. The movie hast to be on my all time top 10 list.

“I can see why you have trouble finding a happy thought, so many sad memories”. I loved this movie as a kid seeing it when it popped into theaters, and at 36 I still watch it once a month at least. It hits so different now. I lost both my parents suddenly within four months of each other in 2021, shortly after lost my dream job I’d had as my stability and income for four years, lost friends, have no other family and lost my home so my vehicle is home now. this scene is one that plays in my mind daily (the soundtrack especially). I am a shell of the very childlike/goofy/imaginative/creative/brave/strong woman I was before all the loss, and for a small moment when I watch this scene/think of it I am that kid again (and pre Covid I also hit Disneyland once a week when it was affordable to be a passholder, and I lived close). It’s magic to have moments when we can be our best self again, even if only for a moment.

That scene where that precious baby was left in the rain rips at my heart. Makes me cry every time. I actually was recently thinking about this scene a lot.

No wonder Peter couldn't find his happy thoughts. He never had any up until he remembered the day he became a father.

Anyone else miss Robin Williams terribly 😢

Aw this makes my heart flow when he realizes his happiest thought is that he is a father to two beautiful children.

OMG, the scene with baby Peter hits so differently now that I am a mother myself

This scene hits different now, but this scene sums up joys and pains of growing up perfectly especially life and death... You're still missed, Robin Williams.

Most criminally underrated movie of all time.

Peter's parents had another child; a biological brother to Peter. So that means somewhere out there, probably still living in England, Peter has blood-related family. But what generation would be alive to him now? Nephews/nieces? Great nephews/nieces? Great-great nephews/nieces? More importantly, when was Peter born? So let's do some math: The movie Hook came out in 1991. Robin Williams was 40 years old in 1991, which makes sense of a successful adult to be around that age. Peter actually met Moira, his future wife and Wendy's granddaughter, for the first time when they were both in their pre-teens; Moira chronologically, Peter physically. Older Wendy even tells Peter that when he saw her 13 year old granddaughter asleep in the bed, he decided to leave Neverland for good. Now, Moira had a poster above her bed for the film "A Hard Day's Night" starring the Beetles which came out in 1964. (02:47) This means Peter Pan left Neverland in the year 1964 and Wendy "adopted" him in which she states he was 12 years old, nearly 13. Wendy was around the same age as Peter when she first had her adventures, 13 years old. She told her adventures to next door neighbor novelist J.M. Barrie and he wrote about it in 1904. If Wendy was 13 in 1904, by 1964 she was 73 years old. But this would mean that by 1991, Wendy would be 100 years old. This might be possible, though. Wendy did spend time in Neverland, and Peter said he always came back for her in the spring. He could've been doing this for another 7 years until Wendy turned 20 years old, as she even told him when Peter came for her for the last time that she was "ever so much older than 20". Spending all that time in Neverland could've halted her aging for her to reach 100 years old. So we know that Peter was about 12 years old from at least 1904. From here, it gets a little difficult to determine when Peter was first born. It seems in Neverland, you still grow until you hit a certain age and then stop growing up. Peter looked to be about 6 years old when he returned to his home to visit his mother and saw that they had another child. So at least 6 years passed when Peter's parents "lost" him and decided to have another baby. Peter said he started visiting other homes with open windows. He could have done this for another 6 years, when he would hit his Neverland age limit of 12, but then how many years after that did he keep visiting other homes? Or did he find Wendy's home exactly after those 6 years? There are a couple of clues. First, the fashion style of Peter's mom indicate the Victorian period of the late 1800s. Second, Peter's baby stroller looks like a balmoral pram which were first made in 1877. If Peter was chronologically age 12 by the year 1904, he would've been born in the year 1892, around the same year as Wendy. So we can assume that Peter Pan was born sometime between the years 1877 and 1892, making Peter 114 - 100 years old chronologically, but only looking physically 40 years old, since he started growing up from 12 in 1964. Now, his biological brother would have been born 6 years later, either in 1883 or 1898. Add 20 years for him to possibly gotten married and have children (we will be adding 20 years per generation, as this is the age people normally had children in those days) 1903 or 1918 around the same time the book for Peter Pan came out. Peter's brother would have been reading to his children about their unknown, long lost uncle. Add another 20 years for those children to grow up and have children of their own, we reach 1923 - 1938 where Peter has grand nephews and/or nieces. Another 20 years, 1943 -1958. Peter's great-grand nephews/nieces are born. Add 25 years for those kids to have kids, its now 1968 - 1983. Peter would have left Neverland for good and would have been raised in the same time period as his great-great-grand nephews and nieces. Peter's son Jack, was born around 1981, meaning that Peter's great-great-grand nephews/nieces are Jack's first cousins three times removed. By 1991, Peter Pan has blood-related family in the form of his great-great-grand nephews and nieces.

1:09 This moment is so crushingly sad. Of course Peter thought they had forgotten about him. As a young child with no frame of reference or emotional maturity, he would have no real way of understanding how it was possible to find happiness if life even if you were still burdened by crushing sadness. Peter's parents probably never stopped thinking about him, loving him, grieving the loss of him. Sure, they managed to have another child, and find a way to be happy. But if he had just tapped on that window, I have no doubt he would have seen just how much they had still loved and missed him.

I can’t believe I’ve watched this movie so many times and didn’t realize that Maggie Smith was in this movie. I love her and I love Robin Williams.

This is one of Spielberg's greatest films

One of the best deconstruction and sequel to a calssic story. None has done it better so far.

It was a thrill to have met the actress who voiced Peter's mother. She's also the of Jem. Samantha Newark, was such a delight. I'm still excited thinking about her from that scene or when I watch Jem.

I didn’t see this movie in theaters, but my family did rent it when it first came out on video. I never forgot when Peter said, “I was afraid because I didn’t want to grow up. Because everybody who grows up has to die someday.” That puts perfectly into perspective why Peter Pan never grows up…except in this movie, of course, LOL!

The whole idea of "never growing up" only works if you keep forgetting, never learn from experiences. Just like Peter had to forget his mother, had to constantly forget everything around him so he wouldn't grow.

"Everybody who grows up has to die someday." Hearing Robin Williams say that now hits me hard. RIP😭

As a 40 year old Millennial, I watched this in the theaters when I was 7 back in 1991. This movie was originally made for the Baby Boomers who were in their 40's at the time this movie was released. Now I am as old as my Baby Boomer parents were when this came out. Watching this at age 7 and again at age 40 really hits home. As a child I saw this movie as magic, excitement, and adventure. I did not truly pick up on the existential sadness and other themes this movie conveys. As a grown and married man, the themes of growing up, loss, parenthood, the inevitability of time are something I fully understand now. It's like I'm seeing this movie through the lens my parents initially did. Steven Spielberg is not proud of this film, I think he should be. It's an underrated masterpiece!

This scene alone had more magic than Peter & Wendy. The shadow part has better effects in 1991 than 2023 and the kid playing young Peter actually feels like him. Wendy being older lines up with the original too.

I just noticed that Peter's mother was planning to send him to law school to be a solicitor and eventually a judge and when he eventually decides to leave Neverland Peter Panning grew up to become a successful lawyer.

Plot twist: The younger you are the more magical power you have which is why he said he ran away when the stroller rolled off. This is also why kids in Neverland can imagine things into existence and do amazing things. Their power is amplified on the island.

Recently watched this with my kids for the first time. One of the old childhood favorites. They really don't make them like this anymore 😢

The heartbroken look on Tink’s face. “Oh no, not again.”

I think as you grow up your personality ‘changes’ and when you are a kid you are the truest version of yourself and this movie captures the essence of remembering who you truly are and bringing that person back and that is why it is so beloved

In deciding not to go back to Neverland, why do you think Peter consciously repressed the memories of his childhood?

I have a lot of questions about why Peter's mother had the baby carriage so far away, how Peter "ran away when it was the wind that took him, and why his mother didn't realize her baby was rolling down the hill in the rain, or the fact that NO ONE noticed a baby on the ground crying for who knew how long! All I can say is whatever the answers, it traumatized that baby...that grew up.... Okay...I have a question about that too.

How is this one scene more profound than anything you see in movies today. Part of growing up means letting go of childish things. That may feel like a tragedy, but ultimately it is through family and children that that childish joy comes back through watching them go through those same joys.

I always forget about Gwyneth Paltrow's cameo in this film until she appears in this scene.

The beautiful irony is the perfect Peter Pan. We received in the form of a grown man with the heart of a child.❤️

Peter looking through the window believing his parents forgot about him is better than him knocking at the door and his parents refusing to welcome him back believing their Peter to actually be dead even though the body was never found, which would have given Peter another good reason to never grow up as an adult would put too much faith in the law and fail to see things beyond belief.

Happy 31st Anniversary Steven Speilberg's "HOOK" (DECEMBER 11, 1991)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (R.I.P. ROBIN WILLIAMS. We will always miss you)

I fear life will never be as innocent or as promising as this ever again.

Those images of that poor baby just laying there on the ground in the rain still sticks around in my head. A parent doesn't just leave the baby several metres from them and pay no attention to it.

I’ll always fancy this movie for its incredible storytelling.

I would KILL to see an adaptation of the original novel/stage show with these younger actors in the roles!

Ok. Now I am crying

Robin Williams was great as grown up Peter Pan who returned to Neverland to save his children from Captn Hook.

Peter: So I ran away. A few seconds earlier: Rolling down the hill while being blow by the wind.

So beautiful in the metaphor of the happy thought, among all of life’s sadness, being so potent and powerful it can make one fly. Incredible movie and so moving to watch back as an adult

When he saids you taught me to fly 😢❤

From saying this, "I was afraid because I didn't wanna grow up, because everyone who grows up has to die someday. So I ran away." To this, "I know why I came back, I know why I grew up....I wanted to be a father." As a dad man...this scene cut SO deep! In one beautiful montage he reminisces about the good times as Peter Pan, the parents he lost, the affects of time on loved ones and their happy thoughts, but ultimately why he stayed in the real world.... To grow up

Tinkerbell just kidnapping babies xD

It’s such a good movie and we really get to see Robin do some touching scenes. It did make me cry though. Especially now I know who Wendy’s actress really is. Thank you Harry Potter for making me know who Maggie Smith is.

Absolutely love this movie.

Just to think 11 years later It's Jane's daughter he kisses since Return to Neverland

How could Peter's mother not realize the carriage was rolling away from her? She was facing in the direction of it and there wasn't anything in the area around that bench that would keep her from seeing it.

I'm 44 and honestly my mind never matured past 17 but I'm a good actor, everything is just a performance of an adult

I felt this for Robin Williams…. Great actor…

The moment when you, a 90s kid, grew up seeing Hook, and then later on see Harry Potter but don't realize old Wendy is Professor McGonagall until you go back and watch a clip of Hook and see old Wendy again.

I always felt sorry for Tinkerbell she was in love with Peter and he completely ghosted her and acted like she didn't exist

Baby Peter looks like a delicate porcelain doll. As vulnerable as all babies

I got it. I got it! I found it! …I lost it. Ahhh!

This is one of my favorite movies with Robin Williams.

The day this scene stops affecting me is the day I learn of my soul’s escape.

A very ethereal scene 😪

It's funny how his mom is talking about judges and courts for his career andwhen he left never land he became a lawyer.

It's kinda weird that he and Wendy are technically the same age and sorta dated, and now she's his "grandma."

If anyone could fly, it would've been Robin Williams. :D

Early in the film, when Peter goes into the old nursery and sees the mural depicting Hook and the pirates, he experiences a sudden fright and quickly closes the window. For a brief moment, the mural triggers his repressed memories, but it frightens him.

lmao he has a shadow in the scene he's chasing his other shadow

No mother would ever have the stroller that far away from them

I miss Robin Williams 🥲he was so funny

You can see how some of the special FX have aged.😅 When Peter chases his shadow you notice that no Green or Blue screens are used to hide his irl shadow. Despite the lack of CG and low budget, Spielburg made possibly one of the greatest family films since ET. It’s a shame this film got so much hate at release and only now has become a steeple of magical adventures and family fun. I hope this film continues to grow and gain more love as a true Peter Pan film. Much like the 1953 and 2003 versions did before.

This scene mad me sad as a kid, and still does.

I'm a father of three A wee boy of three and two wee twins I can't stress how important my wee lad is to me. Millennials, if you're reading this, please have wee ones and look after them well ❤

No one be a child forever even in never land

That's always been my happy thought I love being a daddy

This always made me cry…

I never understood when he says he didn’t wanna grow up and so he ran away. He was a baby. He can’t run.

Rip to robin Williams The true Peter pan

So Peter literally didn't visit Wendy for something like 45 years?!?! Peter why? You lose track of time?

She’s a Beatles fan 2:54

Watching this clip, it's occurred to me that Peter ages even in Neverland. He grew from being a baby, to a five or six year old, to a ten year old each time he came back. Could it be that he does age but just much slower when he's in Neverland?

I can't help but think there was more to Peter wanting to grow up besides becoming a parent. Maybe he went to visit his own family and saw his descendants?

Fun fact (or not), Peter's origin as described here is canon. In his first appearance in "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" he actually was lost in the gardens as a baby and found by fairies. And he did try to go back home... only to find his mother had forgotten him and had another child.

Someone shared a secret for all times. Everyone may adapt the secret, whenever the person needs. No one can destroy this secret.

Just found out that was Gwyneth Paltrow

Let’s remember guys. This is a what if story ! In real canon peter never grows up and is still taking Wendy’s descendants to the never land.

There are too many Pirates in the World! A fabulous movie.💜💛💙💚🖤❤

1:45 Fun fact: the girl here is a very young Gweneth Paltrow, aka Pepper Potts from the Ironman movies.