Hook (film)#Musical Score

{{Infobox film

| name = Hook

| image = Hook poster transparent.png

| caption = Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan

| director = Steven Spielberg

| producer = {{Plainlist|

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| screenplay = {{Plainlist|

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| story = {{Plainlist|

Jim V. Hart
Nick Castle

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| based_on = {{Based on|Peter and Wendy|J. M. Barrie}}

| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| music = John Williams

| cinematography = Dean Cundey

| editing = Michael Kahn

| studio = Amblin Entertainment

| distributor = TriStar Pictures

| released = {{film date|1991|12|11}}

| runtime = 142 minutes{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/hook-1970-4 | title=Hook | work=British Board of Film Classification | date=January 17, 1992 | access-date=January 9, 2016 | archive-date=January 27, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127064552/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/hook-1970-4 | url-status=dead }}

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $70 million{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=411}}

| gross = $300.9 million

}}

Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee, Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy and Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning. It serves as a sequel in a modern day setting to J. M. Barrie's 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, focusing on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten his childhood due to his high-powered lifestyle. In his new life, he is known as Peter Banning, a successful but career-minded lawyer who neglects his wife (Wendy's granddaughter) and their two children. However, when his old archenemy, Captain Hook, kidnaps his children, he returns to Neverland to save them. Along the journey, he reclaims the memories of his past and develops full emotional maturity.

Spielberg began developing Hook in the early 1980s with Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures. It would have followed the Peter Pan storyline seen in the 1924 silent film and 1953 animated Disney film. It entered pre-production in 1985, but Spielberg abandoned the project. Hart developed the script with director Nick Castle and TriStar Pictures before Spielberg decided to direct in 1989. It was shot almost entirely on sound stages at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.

Released on December 11, 1991, Hook received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances (particularly those of Williams and Hoffman), John Williams' musical score, and the film's production values, but criticized the screenplay and tone. The film also received five nominations at the 64th Academy Awards. Although the film was a commercial success and become the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1991, it failed to meet the studio's expectations. Since its release, Hook gained a strong cult following, and it is considered by many to be a cult classic.{{cite web | url=https://screenrant.com/hook-movie-steven-spielberg-dislike-audiences-love-reason/ | title=Hook: Why Steven Spielberg Doesn't Like It (But Audiences Do) | website=Screen Rant | date=March 15, 2020 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hook-at-25-how-steven-spielbergs-peter-pan-found-its-magic-with-the-kids-who-grew-up-with-it-203250596.html | title='Hook' at 25: How Steven Spielberg's 'Peter Pan' Found Its Magic with the Kids Who Grew up with It | date=December 13, 2016 }}{{cite web | url=https://collider.com/hook-peter-pan-adaptation/ | title='Hook' is the Best Peter Pan Adaptation and It's Not Even Close | website=Collider | date=April 28, 2023 }}

Plot

Peter Banning, a workaholic lawyer fixated on success, has a strained relationship with his wife, Moira, and their children, 11-year-old Jack and 7-year-old Maggie, due to his constant absences and broken promises. During Christmas, the family travels to London to visit Moira's grandmother, Wendy Darling, who cared for Peter as an orphan. When Peter loses his temper with the children for interrupting a work call, Moira scolds him, reminding him how fleeting their time with the children is. During a dinner honoring Wendy’s work with orphans, the children stay home with her old friend, Tootles. Returning from the event, Peter and Moira discover the children are missing, with a note left behind signed by Captain James Hook.

Wendy urges Peter to return to Neverland and rescue his children because he is Peter Pan. Having no memory of his childhood, Peter does not believe her until the fairy Tinker Bell arrives and flies him to Neverland. In the pirate town, Peter confronts Hook, who fails to recognize his once formidable rival. Hook challenges Peter to fly and save his children, but Peter fails. Dismayed at how pathetic Peter has become, Hook orders his execution, but Tinker Bell convinces him to give her three days to train Peter for their final battle.

Peter is brought to the Lost Boys' hideout, now led by Rufio. They mock the grown man before them until the group ultimately recognizes him. They begin training Peter, urging him to abandon his uptight adult demeanor and embrace his imagination. Meanwhile, Hook's first mate, Smee, suggests turning Peter's children against him. Maggie resists, but Jack, hurt by Peter's broken promises and failure to save him, begins to side with Hook.

While infiltrating the pirate town, Peter sees Jack playing in a baseball game organized by Hook, who has taken on a fatherly role. Devastated, Peter returns to the Lost Boys' camp with renewed determination. His shadow leads him to the ruins of Wendy's house, where he remembers his past: as an infant in the early 1900s, he ran away from his mother, fearing growing up and dying, and was brought to Neverland by Tinker Bell. Visiting his family later, he found they had a new child and assumed they had forgotten him. Peter met Wendy, who fell in love with him, but as she aged and started a family, Peter fell for her granddaughter, Moira, and remained with her. Recalling Jack's birth as his happiest memory, Peter regains his powers and ability to fly. That night, a heartbroken Tinker Bell confesses her unrequited love to Peter.

The next day, Peter and the Lost Boys launch an attack on the pirates. While Peter rescues Maggie, Rufio is fatally wounded in a duel with Hook. Witnessing Rufio's dying wish for a father like Peter, Jack reconciles with his father. Peter prepares to leave Neverland with his children, but Hook demands a final battle, vowing to eternally stalk Peter's descendants if denied. With help from Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, Peter subdues Hook, who feigns surrender. Hook tries to stab Peter, but misses and impales the taxidermied Crocodile that once ate his hand. The Crocodile appears to come to life, topples over, and consumes Hook. Tinker Bell then returns Jack and Maggie home while Peter bids farewell to the Lost Boys, appointing Thud Butt as their new leader. Thud Butt gives Peter a bag of marbles that belonged to Tootles, a former Lost Boy.

Peter awakens in London, where Tinker Bell tearfully bids him farewell. Transformed by his journey, Peter joyfully reunites with his family and discards his work phone. He returns the bag to Tootles, who sprinkles the pixie dust within on himself and flies off to Neverland. When Wendy observes that Peter's adventures are over, he replies, "To live will be an awfully big adventure."

Cast

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Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan
Ryan Francis as the 8-year-old Peter Pan
Max Hoffman as the young Peter Pan
Matthew Van Ginkel as baby Peter Pan
Dustin Hoffman as Captain James Hook
Hoffman also voices the Pan Am pilot's announcement as a nod to the dual role element of Captain Hook and George Darling in the original play.
Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell
Lisa Wilhoit as Tinker Bell in a flashback in which Peter is a baby
Bob Hoskins as William Smee
Hoskins also portrays a street sweeper at Kensington Gardens
Maggie Smith as Wendy Darling
Gwyneth Paltrow as the teenage Wendy Darling
Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning, Peter and Moira's son
Amber Scott as Maggie Banning, Peter and Moira's daughter
Caroline Goodall as Moira Banning, Peter's wife and Jack and Maggie's mother
Geoffrey Lower as Brad, Peter’s co-worker
Kelly Rowan as Peter's mother
Dante Basco as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys
Jasen Fisher as Ace
Raushan Hammond as Thud Butt
Isaiah Robinson as Pockets
James Madio as Don't Ask
Arthur Malet as Tootles
Laurel Cronin as Liza, Granny Wendy's maid
Phil Collins as Inspector Good
Alex Zuckerman as Latchboy
Thomas Tulak as Too Small
Ahmad Stoner as No Nap
Nick Tate as Noodler

In addition, a number of celebrities and family members made brief credited and uncredited cameos in the film:{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/the-boy-who-inspired-hook-and-19-more-facts-as-film-turns-25-photos/ |title=The Boy Who Inspired 'Hook' and 19 Other Little-Known Facts as Film Turns 25 (Photos) |last=Doty |first=Meriah |date=December 11, 2016 |website=TheWrap |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011214502/https://www.thewrap.com/the-boy-who-inspired-hook-and-19-more-facts-as-film-turns-25-photos/ |url-status=live }} musicians David Crosby and Jimmy Buffett, actress Glenn Close, and former boxer Tony Burton appear as members of Hook's pirate crew; Star Wars creator George Lucas and actress Carrie Fisher play the kissing couple sprinkled with pixie dust; two of Hoffman's children, Jacob and Rebecca, both under 10 years old during filming, briefly appear in scenes in the "normal" world; and screenwriter Jim Hart's 11-year-old son Jake (who years earlier inspired his father with the question, "What if Peter Pan grew up?") plays one of Peter's Lost Boys.

Production

=Inspiration=

Steven Spielberg found a close personal connection to Peter Pan's story from his own childhood. The troubled relationship between Peter Banning and his son Jack in the film echoed Spielberg's relationship with his own father Arnold. Previous Spielberg films that explored a dysfunctional father-son relationship included E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Peter's "quest for success" paralleled Spielberg starting out as a film director and transforming into a Hollywood business magnate.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=413}} "I think a lot of people today are losing their imagination because they are work-driven. They are so self-involved with work and success and arriving at the next plateau that children and family almost become incidental. I have even experienced it myself when I have been on a very tough shoot and I've not seen my kids except on weekends. They ask for my time and I can't give it to them because I'm working."

Like Peter at the beginning of the film, Spielberg has a fear of flying. He feels that Peter's "enduring quality" in the storyline is simply to fly. "Anytime anything flies, whether it's Superman, Batman, or E.T., it's got to be a tip of the hat to Peter Pan," Spielberg reflected in a 1992 interview. "Peter Pan was the first time I saw anybody fly. Before I saw Superman, before I saw Batman, and of course before I saw any superheroes, my first memory of anybody flying is in Peter Pan".

=Pre-production=

The genesis of the film started when Spielberg's mother often read him Peter and Wendy as a bedtime story. He explained in 1985, "When I was 11 years old, I actually directed the story during a school production. I have always felt like Peter Pan. I still feel like Peter Pan. It has been very hard for me to grow up, I'm a victim of the Peter Pan syndrome".{{sfn|McBride|1997|pp=42–3}}

In the early 1980s, Spielberg began to develop a film with Walt Disney Pictures that would have closely followed the storyline of the 1924 silent film and 1953 animated film.{{cite interview|interviewer=Ana Maria Bahiana|subject=Steven Spielberg|url=https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/cinemapaper1992marno087|publication-date=March–April 1992|title=Hook: Steven Spielberg|issue=87|magazine=Cinema Papers|pages=12–16|via=issuu|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=2021-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512031236/https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/cinemapaper1992marno087|url-status=live}} He also considered directing it as a musical with Michael Jackson in the lead.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=409}} Jackson expressed interest in the part, but was not interested in Spielberg's vision of an adult Peter Pan, who had forgotten about his past.{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/12/04/michael_jackson_was_steven_spielbergs_|title=Michael Jackson Was Steven Spielberg's First Choice To Play Peter Pan In 'Hook'|website=Starpulse.com|access-date=March 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208143650/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/12/04/michael_jackson_was_steven_spielbergs_|archive-date=February 8, 2012}}

The project was taken to Paramount Pictures,{{cite web |date=December 11, 2019 |title=Steven Spielberg's Hook: What Went Wrong? |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/steven-spielbergs-hook-what-went-wrong/ |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=Den of Geek |language=en-US}} where James V. Hart wrote the first script, with Dustin Hoffman already cast as Captain Hook.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=409}} It entered pre-production in 1985, with filming to begin at sound stages in England. Elliot Scott had been hired as production designer. With the birth of his first son, Max, in 1985, Spielberg decided to drop out. "I decided not to make Peter Pan when I had my first child," Spielberg commented. "I didn't want to go to London and have seven kids on wires in front of blue screens. I wanted to be home as a dad."{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=409}} Around this time, he considered directing Big, which carried with it similar motifs and themes.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=409}} In 1987, he "permanently abandoned" it, feeling he expressed his childhood and adult themes in Empire of the Sun.{{cite news |last=Forsberg |first=Myra |date=January 10, 1988 |title=Spielberg at 40: The Man and the Child |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-turns40.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York, NY |access-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214063527/http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-turns40.html |url-status=live }}

Meanwhile, Paramount and Hart moved forward on production with Nick Castle as director. Hart began to work on a new storyline when his son Jake showed his family a drawing. "We asked Jake what it was and he said it was a crocodile eating Captain Hook, but that the crocodile really didn't eat him, he got away," Hart reflected. "As it happens, I had been trying to crack Peter Pan for years, but I didn't just want to do a remake. So I went, 'Wow. Hook is not dead. The crocodile is. We've all been fooled.' In 1986, our family was having dinner and Jake said, 'Daddy, did Peter Pan ever grow up?' My immediate response was, 'No, of course not.' And Jake said, 'But what if he did?' I realized that Peter did grow up, just like all of us baby boomers who are now in our forties. I patterned him after several of my friends on Wall Street, where the pirates wear three-piece suits and ride in limos."{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=410}}

Many fans believed Tom Hanks was Spielberg's original choice for the role of Peter Pan.{{cite web|date=22 December 2011|title=The Lost Comedy Roles of Tom Hanks|url=https://www.vulture.com/2011/12/the-lost-comedy-roles-of-tom-hanks.html|website=Vulture}} Hanks has debunked that rumour.{{cite web | url=https://screenrant.com/hook-peter-pan-tom-hanks-response/ | title=Tom Hanks Debunks Peter Pan Casting Rumor for Hook Movie | website=Screen Rant | date=September 8, 2022 }} Joseph Mazzello auditioned for the role of Jack Banning, but was turned down because he was deemed too young for the role. Mazzello was cast later as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park.{{cite web|date=2 May 2010|title=Spielberg's Protégé|url=https://nypost.com/2010/05/02/spielbergs-protege/|website=NY Post}}

=Filming=

By 1989, Ian Rathbone changed the title to Hook, and took it from Paramount to TriStar Pictures, headed by Mike Medavoy, who was Spielberg's first talent agent. Robin Williams signed on, but he and Hoffman had creative differences with Castle. Medavoy saw the film as a vehicle for Spielberg and Castle was dismissed, but he was paid a $500,000 settlement.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=410}} Dodi Fayed, who owned certain rights to make a Peter Pan film, sold his interest to TriStar in exchange for an executive producer credit.{{sfn|Medavoy|Young|2002|p=230}} Spielberg briefly worked with Hart to rewrite the script before hiring Malia Scotch Marmo to rewrite Captain Hook's dialog, and Carrie Fisher for Tinker Bell's.{{cite web|title=Carrie Fisher Script Doctor: From Hook To Wedding Singer|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/|date=2016-12-29|website=/Film|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=2020-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424222256/https://www.slashfilm.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/|url-status=live}} The Writers Guild of America gave Hart and Marmo screenplay credit, while Hart and Castle were credited with the story. Fisher went uncredited.

Filming began February 19, 1991, occupying nine sound stages at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=411}} Stage 30 housed the Neverland Lost Boys playground, while Stage 10 supplied Captain Hook's ship cabin. Hidden hydraulics were installed to rock the set-piece to simulate a swaying ship, but the filmmakers found the movement distracted from the dialogue, so the idea was dropped.

Stage 27 housed the full-sized Jolly Roger and the surrounding Pirate Wharf.DVD production notes Industrial Light & Magic provided the visual effects sequences. This marked the beginning of Tony Swatton's career, as he was asked to make weaponry for the film.{{cite magazine|last=McLauchlin |first=James |url=https://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/hollywood-blacksmith-tony-swatton/ |title=When Hollywood Needs Shiny Instruments of Death, This Blacksmith Delivers |magazine=Wired |date=2013-03-28 |accessdate=2013-11-15}}

It was financed by Amblin Entertainment and TriStar Pictures, with TriStar distributing it. Spielberg hired John Napier as a "visual consultant", having been impressed with his work on Cats. The original production budget was set at $48 million, but ended up between $60–80 million.{{cite web |last=Park |first=Jeannie |date=December 23, 1991 |title=Ahoy! Neverland! |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-ahoy-neverland-vol-36-no-24/ |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=People |language=en}}{{sfn|McBride|1997|pp=410, 412}} The primary reason for the increased budget was the shooting schedule, which ran 40 days over its original 76-day schedule. Spielberg explained, "It was all my fault. I began to work at a slower pace than I usually do."{{cite web |date=November 2, 2016 |title=13 Sharp Facts About Hook |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/88221/13-sharp-facts-about-hook |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=Mental Floss |language=en}}

Spielberg's on-set relationship with Julia Roberts was troubled, and he admitted in a 1992 interview with 60 Minutes, "It was an unfortunate time for us to work together."{{cite web |title=Steven Spielberg on 60 Minutes |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUbT4LRDOig |website=YouTube | date=April 21, 2020 |publisher=CBS}} (Timestamp 8:08). Retrieved December 21, 2021. In a 1999 Vanity Fair interview, Roberts said that Spielberg's comments "really hurt my feelings". She "couldn't believe this person that I knew and trusted was actually hesitating to come to my defense... it was the first time that I felt I had a turncoat in my midst."{{cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/06/Canoodling-With-Julia |title=Canoodling with Julia|last=Zeman |first=Ned |date=June 1999 |work=Vanity Fair |access-date=December 18, 2024 |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710081944/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/06/Canoodling-With-Julia |url-status=live }}

Soundtrack

{{Infobox album

| name = Hook (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| type = film

| artist = John Williams

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| length = 75:18 (original)
140:34 (reissue)

| label = Epic Soundtrax (original)
La-La Land Records (reissue)

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The film score was composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. He was brought in at an early stage when Spielberg was considering making the film as a musical. Williams wrote approximately eight songs with lyricist Leslie Bricusse for the project at this stage.{{cite web |date=February 13, 2000 |title=HOOK (1991) – Complete Score Analysis (2000) |url=https://www.jwfan.com/?p=3433 |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=JOHN WILLIAMS Fan Network}} Williams and Bricusse finalized it to five songs.{{Cite web |last=Grieving |first=Tim |date=December 8, 2021 |title=Steven Spielberg's Eternal Quest for Song and Dance |url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/12/8/22823113/hook-west-side-story-robin-williams-musical-steven-spielberg |access-date=August 13, 2022 |website=theringer.com}} Several of these songs were recorded, and some musical segments were even filmed.

Julie Andrews recorded one song, "Childhood", at the Sony Pictures Studios, so that Maggie Smith could lip-sync it on-set; it was meant to be sung by Granny Wendy to her grandchildren in their bedroom. Two additional songs, "Stick with Me" and "Low Below", performed by Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins, respectively, were also rehearsed. These three songs were ultimately cut from the film, and instead were incorporated into the instrumental score. Two remaining songs survive in the finished film: "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" and "When You're Alone", both with lyrics by Bricusse. The "Prologue" track later appeared in a commercial for the 68th Academy Awards in 1995, and in trailers for Matilda (1996), another film by TriStar.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCb68DmP6Rc | title=68th Academy Awards (1996) [FTD-0454] | website=YouTube | date=June 27, 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.soundtrack.net/movie/matilda/ | title=Matilda (1996) - Soundtrack.Net }}

The original 1991 issue was released by Epic Soundtrax.{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/hook-mw0000677078 | title = Hook - John Williams | website = AllMusic | access-date = August 26, 2010 | archive-date = August 28, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120828110454/http://www.allmusic.com/album/hook-mw0000677078 | url-status = live }} In 2012, a limited edition of the soundtrack, called Hook: Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, was released by La-La Land Records and Sony Music. It contains almost the complete score, with alternates and unused material. It also contains liner notes that explain the film's production and score recording.

;Commercial songs from the film, but not on the soundtrack

"Pick'em Up" – Music by John Williams and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" – Written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer

In November 2023, La-La Land Records announced a remastered and expanded three-disc ultimate edition of the film's score in its entirety, to be released December 1, 2023. The first disc includes the score presentation. The second disc features the additional musical tracks, and the third disc features alternate cues, source music, and Leslie Bricusse's songs.

Video games

A video game based on the film and bearing the same name was released for various game consoles in 1992.{{cite web|last=Marriott|first=Scott Alan|title=Hook – Overview (SNES)|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=185|access-date=August 25, 2017|work=AllGame|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115031859/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=185|archive-date=November 15, 2014}} Another game was released for personal computer and Commodore Amiga, and is a point-and-click adventure game.

Reception

=Box office=

Spielberg, Williams and Hoffman did not take salaries for Hook. Their deal called for them to split 40% of TriStar Pictures's gross revenues. They were to receive $20 million from the first $50 million in gross theatrical film rentals, with TriStar keeping the next $70 million in rentals before the three resumed receiving their percentage.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=411}}

Hook was released in North America December 11, 1991, earning $13.5 million in its opening weekend. It went on to gross $119.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $181.2 million in foreign countries, accumulating a worldwide total of $300.9 million.{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hook.htm | title = Hook (1991) | work = Box Office Mojo | access-date = September 19, 2008 | archive-date = December 19, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081219133934/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hook.htm | url-status = live }} It is the sixth-highest-grossing "pirate-themed" film, behind all five films in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=pirate.htm | title = Pirate Movies at the Box Office | work = Box Office Mojo | access-date = June 3, 2011 | archive-date = June 5, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605024349/http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=pirate.htm | url-status = live }} In the United States and Canada, it was the sixth-highest-grossing film in 1991,{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1991&p=.htm | title = 1991 Yearly Box Office Results | work = Box Office Mojo | access-date = September 19, 2008 | archive-date = December 16, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081216051258/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1991&p=.htm | url-status = live }} and fourth-highest-grossing worldwide.{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1991&p=.htm | title = 1991 Yearly Box Office Results | work = Box Office Mojo | access-date = September 19, 2008 | archive-date = December 18, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081218083955/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1991&p=.htm | url-status = live }} It was the second-highest-grossing film in Japan, with theatrical rentals of $22.4 million.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=September 27, 1993|page=57|title=Top 10 grossers in Japan: 1992}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eiren.org/toukei/1992.html|title=Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1992-nen|publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan|language=ja|access-date=February 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511070754/http://www.eiren.org/toukei/1992.html|archive-date=May 11, 2011|url-status=live}} It ended up making a profit of $50 million for the studio, yet it was still declared a financial disappointment,{{cite web|last=Dretzka|first=Gary|date=December 8, 1996|title=Medavoy's Method|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-12-08-9701040023-story.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172949/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-12-08-9701040023-story.html|archive-date=2018-10-11|access-date=2018-10-11|work=Chicago Tribune}} having been overshadowed by the release of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and a decline in box-office receipts compared to the previous years.{{sfn|Medavoy|Young|2002|pp=234–235}}

=Home media=

Hook was released on VHS and LaserDisc on July 21, 1992, and on DVD in the United States on March 21, 2000 by Columbia TriStar Home Video. It was released on Blu-ray disc on November 1, 2011, and 4K UHD on October 9, 2018 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

=Critical response=

Hook received mixed reviews upon release.{{Cite news |last=McNary |first=Dave |author-link=Dave McNary |date=December 30, 1991 |title='Hook' leads pack in post-Christmas box office tally |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/12/30/Hook-leads-pack-in-post-Christmas-box-office-tally/8622694069200/ |access-date=April 14, 2025 |work=United Press International}} Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 29% of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 4.70/10. The site's consensus states: "The look of Hook is lively indeed, but Steven Spielberg directs on autopilot here, giving in too quickly to his sentimental, syrupy qualities."{{cite web | url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hook/ | title = Hook (1991) | work = Rotten Tomatoes | publisher = Fandango | access-date = August 22, 2021 | archive-date = January 8, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190108032632/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hook/ | url-status = live }} On Metacritic, the film has a 52 out of 100 rating, based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.{{cite web | url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hook | title=Hook Reviews | work=Metacritic | publisher=CBS Interactive | access-date=January 9, 2016 | archive-date=October 31, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031183147/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hook | url-status=live }} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on a scale of A+ to F.{{cite web|date=2018-12-20|title=Cinemascore :: Movie Title Search|url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|access-date=2020-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/|archive-date=2018-12-20}}

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: {{blockquote|The sad thing about the screenplay for Hook is that it's so correctly titled: This whole construction is really nothing more than a hook on which to hang a new version of the Peter Pan story. No effort is made to involve Peter's magic in the changed world he now inhabits, and little thought has been given to Captain Hook's extraordinary persistence in wanting to revisit the events of the past. The failure in Hook is its inability to re-imagine the material, to find something new, fresh or urgent to do with the Peter Pan myth. Lacking that, Spielberg should simply have remade the original story, straight, for this generation.{{cite news | title = Hook Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) | date = December 11, 1991 | last = Ebert | first = Roger | author-link = Roger Ebert | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hook-1991 | work = Chicago Sun Times | access-date = September 19, 2008 | archive-date = January 11, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150111044245/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hook-1991 | url-status = live }}}} Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine felt it would "only appeal to the baby boomer generation", and highly criticized the sword-fighting choreography.{{cite news | last = Travers | first = Peter | author-link = Peter Travers | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947391/review/5947392/hook | title = Hook | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = December 11, 1992 | access-date = September 19, 2008 | url-status = dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616083730/https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5947391/review/5947392/hook |archive-date=June 16, 2008}} Vincent Canby of The New York Times felt the story structure was not well balanced, feeling Spielberg depended too much on art direction.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/11/movies/review-film-peter-as-a-middle-aged-master-of-the-universe.html |title=Review/Film; Peter as a Middle-Aged Master of the Universe |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=December 11, 1991 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011220016/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/11/movies/review-film-peter-as-a-middle-aged-master-of-the-universe.html |url-status=live }} Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was one of the few who gave it a positive review. Hinson elaborated on crucial themes of children, adulthood and loss of innocence. However, he said Spielberg "was stuck too much in a theme park world".{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hookpghinson_a0a725.htm |title=Hook |last=Hinson |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Hinson |date=December 11, 1991 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=November 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129152343/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hookpghinson_a0a725.htm |url-status=live }}

John Williams's musical score was particularly praised, and is considered by many as one of his best.{{cite web |last=Hicks |first=Chris |date=January 11, 1992 |title='HOOK' COMPOSER SCORES BIG WITH COLLECTION OF MOVIE THEMES |url=https://www.deseret.com/1992/1/11/18961360/hook-composer-scores-big-with-collection-of-movie-themes |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}{{cite web|date=18 December 2019|title=The Top 10 John Williams Scores of All Time|url=https://collider.com/best-john-williams-scores/|website=Collider}}{{cite web|date=17 October 2018|title=15 Legendary John Williams Film Scores|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/now/omg/15-legendary-john-williams-film-scores/|website=Musicnotes.com}} Filmmaker Jon M. Chu cited the film as a source of inspiration for the visual aesthetics of his two-part film adaptation of the musical Wicked (2024-2025).{{Cite magazine |last=Murphy |first=Chris |date=2024-03-21 |title=Inside 'Wicked': Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Talk Glinda and Elphaba |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/inside-wicked-with-ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo |access-date=2024-08-10 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Schreur |first=Brandon |date=2024-03-21 |title=Wicked Director Talks Realistic Sets, Modeling Movie After Steven Spielberg's Hook |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1618356-wicked-director-talks-realistic-sets-modeling-movie-after-steven-spielbergs-hook |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More |language=en-US}}

=Spielberg's assessment=

File:Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg later admitted that he was largely disappointed with Hook.]]

In the years since its release, Spielberg has admitted in interviews that he was not proud of the film, and disappointed with the final result. In 2011, he told Entertainment Weekly, "There are parts of Hook I love. I'm really proud of my work right up through Peter being hauled off in the parachute out the window, heading for Neverland. I'm a little less proud of the Neverland sequences because I'm uncomfortable with that highly stylized world that today, of course, I would probably have done with live-action character work inside a completely digital set. But we didn't have the technology to do it then, and my imagination only went as far as building physical sets and trying to paint trees blue and red."{{cite magazine|last=Breznican|first=Anthony|author-link=Anthony Breznican|date=December 2, 2011|title=Steven Spielberg: The EW interview|url=https://ew.com/article/2011/12/02/steven-spielberg-ew-interview/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172941/https://ew.com/article/2011/12/02/steven-spielberg-ew-interview/|archive-date=October 11, 2018|access-date=October 11, 2018|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

Spielberg gave a more blunt assessment in a 2013 interview on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review: "I wanna see Hook again because I so don't like that movie, and I'm hoping someday I'll see it again and perhaps like some of it."{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnwQDgssrwk |title=Steven Spielberg interviewed by Kermode & Mayo |last1=Kermode |first1=Mark |author-link=Mark Kermode |last2=Mayo |first2=Simon |author-link2=Simon Mayo |date=January 25, 2013 |work=Kermode and Mayo's Film Review |via=YouTube |access-date=February 18, 2016 |archive-date=April 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417174516/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnwQDgssrwk |url-status=live }} In 2018, Spielberg told Empire, "I felt like a fish out of water making Hook... I didn't have confidence in the script. I had confidence in the first act and I had confidence in the epilogue. I didn't have confidence in the body of it." He added, "I didn't quite know what I was doing and I tried to paint over my insecurity with production value," admitting "the more insecure I felt about it, the bigger and more colorful the sets became."{{cite web |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/hook/271147/why-steven-spielberg-was-unhappy-with-hook |title=Why Steven Spielberg Was Unhappy With Hook |last=Brew |first=Simon |date=February 22, 2018 |work=Den of Geek |access-date=March 27, 2018 |archive-date=March 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327214650/http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/hook/271147/why-steven-spielberg-was-unhappy-with-hook |url-status=live }}

=Accolades=

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Award ! Category ! Nominee(s) ! Result ! Ref.
rowspan="5"\| Academy Awards \| Best Art Direction \| Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis \| {{nom}} \| align="center" rowspan="5"\| {{Cite web \|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 \|title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners \|date=October 9, 2014 \|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \|access-date=December 21, 2021}}
Best Costume Design \| Anthony Powell \| {{nom}}
Best Makeup \| Christina Smith, Monty Westmore, and Greg Cannom \| {{nom}}
Best Original Song \| "When You're Alone" Music by John Williams; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse \| {{nom}}
Best Visual Effects \| Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan, and Michael Lantieri \| {{nom}}
American Comedy Awards \| Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture \| Maggie Smith \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\|
American Society of Cinematographers Awards \| Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases \| Dean Cundey \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php \|title=The ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802060537/http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php \|archive-date=2011-08-02}}
BMI Film & TV Awards \| Film Music Award \| John Williams \| {{won}} \| align="center"\|
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards \| Most Promising Actor \| Charlie Korsmo \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives \|title=1988-2013 Award Winner Archives \|publisher=Chicago Film Critics Association \|date=January 1, 2013 \|access-date=April 12, 2024}}
Golden Globe Awards \| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy \| Dustin Hoffman \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/hook \|title=Hook \|publisher=Golden Globe Awards \|access-date=April 12, 2024}}
Golden Raspberry Awards \| Worst Supporting Actress \| Julia Roberts \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=341&PN=2 \|title=12th Golden Raspberry Awards \|publisher=Golden Raspberry Awards \|access-date=October 15, 2008 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223172425/http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=341&PN=2 \|archive-date=December 23, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|df=mdy-all}}
colspan="3"\| Golden Screen Awards \| {{won}} \| align="center"\|
GoldSpirit Awards \| Best Edition of an Existing Score \| rowspan="3"\| John Williams \| {{won}} \| align="center"\|
rowspan="2"\| Grammy Awards \| Best Pop Instrumental Performance \| {{nom}} \| align="center" rowspan="2"\| {{cite web \|url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/35th-annual-grammy-awards \|title=35th Annual GRAMMY Awards \|publisher=Grammy Awards \|access-date=April 12, 2024}}
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television \| {{nom}}
rowspan="2"\| International Film Music Critics Association Awards \| Best Archival Release of an Existing Score \| John Williams, Didier C. Deutsch, MV Gerhard, Matt Verboys, Mark G. Wilder, Daniel Schweiger, and Jim Titus \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://filmmusiccritics.org/awards-archive/2012-ifmca-awards/ \|title=2012 IFMCA Awards \|publisher=International Film Music Critics Association \|date=April 12, 2024 \|access-date=April 12, 2024}}
Best Archival Release \| John Williams, Mike Matessino, John Takis, Jason LeBlanc, and Jim Titus \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=https://filmmusiccritics.org/2024/02/ifmca-award-nominations-2023/ \|title=IFMCA Award Nominations 2023 \|publisher=International Film Music Critics Association \|date=February 8, 2024 \|access-date=February 8, 2024}}
Saturn Awards \| colspan="2"\| Best Fantasy Film \| {{nom}} \| align="center"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html \|title=Past Saturn Awards \|publisher=Saturn Awards \|access-date=September 20, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050210040426/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html \|archive-date=February 10, 2005 \|df=mdy-all}}
rowspan="6"\| Young Artist Awards \| colspan="2"\| Best Family Motion Picture \| {{won}} \| align="center" rowspan="6"\| {{cite web \|url=http://www.youngartistawards.org/pastnoms14.htm \|title=14th Annual Youth in Film Awards \|access-date=2011-03-31 \|publisher=Young Artist Awards \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217002739/http://www.youngartistawards.org/pastnoms14.htm \|archive-date=2011-02-17}}
rowspan="2"\| Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture \| Dante Basco \| {{nom}}
Charlie Korsmo \| {{nom}}
Best Young Actor Under 10 in a Motion Picture \| Raushan Hammond \| {{nom}}
Best Young Actress Under 10 in a Motion Picture \| Amber Scott \| {{nom}}
Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture \| Charlie Korsmo, Amber Scott, Ryan Francis, Dante Basco, Raushan Hammond, Jasen Fisher, James Madio, Isaiah Robinson, Thomas Tulak, Alex Zuckerman, Ahmad Stone, Bogdan Georghe, Adam McNatt, René González Jr, Brian Willis, and Alex Gaona \| {{won}}

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Award

! Category

! Nominee(s)

! Result

! Ref.

rowspan="5"| Academy Awards

| Best Art Direction

| Art Direction: Norman Garwood;
Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis

| {{nom}}

| align="center" rowspan="5"| {{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners |date=October 9, 2014 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=December 21, 2021}}

Best Costume Design

| Anthony Powell

| {{nom}}

Best Makeup

| Christina Smith,
Monty Westmore, and
Greg Cannom

| {{nom}}

Best Original Song

| "When You're Alone"
Music by John Williams;
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse

| {{nom}}

Best Visual Effects

| Eric Brevig,
Harley Jessup,
Mark Sullivan, and
Michael Lantieri

| {{nom}}

American Comedy Awards

| Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

| Maggie Smith

| {{nom}}

| align="center"|

American Society of Cinematographers Awards

| Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases

| Dean Cundey

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php |title=The ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802060537/http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php |archive-date=2011-08-02}}

BMI Film & TV Awards

| Film Music Award

| John Williams

| {{won}}

| align="center"|

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

| Most Promising Actor

| Charlie Korsmo

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://chicagofilmcritics.org/awards-blog/archives |title=1988-2013 Award Winner Archives |publisher=Chicago Film Critics Association |date=January 1, 2013 |access-date=April 12, 2024}}

Golden Globe Awards

| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

| Dustin Hoffman

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/hook |title=Hook |publisher=Golden Globe Awards |access-date=April 12, 2024}}

Golden Raspberry Awards

| Worst Supporting Actress

| Julia Roberts

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=341&PN=2 |title=12th Golden Raspberry Awards |publisher=Golden Raspberry Awards |access-date=October 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223172425/http://www.razzies.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=341&PN=2 |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}

colspan="3"| Golden Screen Awards

| {{won}}

| align="center"|

GoldSpirit Awards

| Best Edition of an Existing Score

| rowspan="3"| John Williams

| {{won}}

| align="center"|

rowspan="2"| Grammy Awards

| Best Pop Instrumental Performance

| {{nom}}

| align="center" rowspan="2"| {{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/35th-annual-grammy-awards |title=35th Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=Grammy Awards |access-date=April 12, 2024}}

Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for
Television

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"| International Film Music Critics Association Awards

| Best Archival Release of an Existing Score

| John Williams,
Didier C. Deutsch,
MV Gerhard,
Matt Verboys,
Mark G. Wilder,
Daniel Schweiger, and
Jim Titus

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://filmmusiccritics.org/awards-archive/2012-ifmca-awards/ |title=2012 IFMCA Awards |publisher=International Film Music Critics Association |date=April 12, 2024 |access-date=April 12, 2024}}

Best Archival Release

| John Williams,
Mike Matessino,
John Takis,
Jason LeBlanc, and
Jim Titus

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://filmmusiccritics.org/2024/02/ifmca-award-nominations-2023/ |title=IFMCA Award Nominations 2023 |publisher=International Film Music Critics Association |date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024}}

Saturn Awards

| colspan="2"| Best Fantasy Film

| {{nom}}

| align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |title=Past Saturn Awards |publisher=Saturn Awards |access-date=September 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050210040426/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html |archive-date=February 10, 2005 |df=mdy-all}}

rowspan="6"| Young Artist Awards

| colspan="2"| Best Family Motion Picture

| {{won}}

| align="center" rowspan="6"| {{cite web |url=http://www.youngartistawards.org/pastnoms14.htm |title=14th Annual Youth in Film Awards |access-date=2011-03-31 |publisher=Young Artist Awards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217002739/http://www.youngartistawards.org/pastnoms14.htm |archive-date=2011-02-17}}

rowspan="2"| Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Motion Picture

| Dante Basco

| {{nom}}

Charlie Korsmo

| {{nom}}

Best Young Actor Under 10 in a Motion Picture

| Raushan Hammond

| {{nom}}

Best Young Actress Under 10 in a Motion Picture

| Amber Scott

| {{nom}}

Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture

| Charlie Korsmo,
Amber Scott,
Ryan Francis,
Dante Basco,
Raushan Hammond,
Jasen Fisher,
James Madio,
Isaiah Robinson,
Thomas Tulak,
Alex Zuckerman,
Ahmad Stone,
Bogdan Georghe,
Adam McNatt,
René González Jr,
Brian Willis, and
Alex Gaona

| {{won}}

References

Bibliography

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{{cite book | author= Charles L.P. Silet | title = The Films of Steven Spielberg | year = 2002 | publisher = Scarecrow Press | isbn = 0-8108-4182-7 }}
{{cite book | last = McBride | first = Joseph | title = Steven Spielberg: A Biography | publisher =Faber and Faber | year =1997 | location = New York City | isbn = 0-571-19177-0 | author-link = Joseph McBride (writer) }}
{{cite book |last1=Medavoy |first1=Mike| last2=Young |first2=Josh |title=You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot |year=2002 |isbn=978-0743400558 |location=New York City |publisher=Atria Books }}