Peter and Wendy is a 2015 television film made for ITV in the United Kingdom. It was written by Adrian Hodges, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and produced by Stewart Mackinnon and Christian Baute, Headline Pictures.
The film is based on the play and novel by J. M. Barrie, blending it with an original narrative set in the present day. The film draws a connection between the stories of Barrie and the real life Great Ormond Street Hospital, to which Barrie gave the rights to the story in 1929, a few years before his death.
It was first broadcast on 26 December 2015.
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Plot
Lucy Rose is a teenage girl with a heart condition who is awaiting risky surgery that would save her life. Late in the night before her operation she is given an original first edition copy of Peter Pan by a staff member from within the stored confines of the museum dedicated to James Matthew Barrie. After reading it to a group of child patients, she dreams she is Wendy, and her fellow child patients are Lost Boys and the Darling brothers, who are all taken by Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet Tiger Lily and battle pirates led by Captain Hook.
Cast
Stanley Tucci as Captain Hook / Mr. Darling / Dr. Wylie
Dan Tetsell as Ratcliffe / Dalton
Laura Elphinstone as Starkey / Ali
Rasmus Hardiker as Smee / Smith
Gershwyn Eustache Jnr as Cecco / Yeboah
Ricky Champ as Bill Jukes / Malik
Asim Chaudhry as Mullins / Johnson
Laura Fraser as Mrs. Darling / Julie Rose
Hazel Doupe as Wendy Darling / Lucy Rose
Natifa Mai as Tiger Lily / Jaya
Zak Sutcliffe as Peter Pan
Paloma Faith as Tinker Bell
Woody Norman as Curly / Rory
Awards
The film won an International Emmy in 2016, and a Special Award for Best Director at the Parma Film Music Festival in 2016.
Reception
The film was generally well received by critics.