Peter Pan Recap (1953)

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Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated musical fantasy-adventure movie produced by Walt Disney and based on the play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. It is the 14th film in the Disney Animated Canon, and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures. Peter Pan is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO; future animated features would be released by Walt Disney's own distribution company, Buena Vista Film Distribution. It is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. It is also the second Disney animated film, starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson, after their roles in the animated feature Alice in Wonderland.

The movie was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. A sequel titled Return to Never Land was released in 2002, and a series of direct-to-DVD prequels focusing on Tinker Bell began in 2008. A Disney Junior television series featuring some of the characters, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, premiered in 2011. While not a big hit at first, it is considered to be one of the most well known Disney movies of all time.

In 2023, a live-action adaptation of the movie will be released on Disney Plus (Alexander Molony, Ever Anderson, Jude Law, Yara Shahidi)

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