| Director | Brenda Chapman |
|---|---|
| Box office | $1.7 million |
A mother reads "The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats to her three children, two boys and one girl, and recounts a story of three siblings; Alice, David (The White Rabbit) and Peter, who live with their parents: Jack (The King of Hearts) and Rose Littleton (The Queen of Hearts). The children dwell in a house by a forest on the outskirts of London letting their imaginations run wild.
Alice acts mature in contrast to Peter who regards the local woods as his domain (during one of their trips they discover an eagle feather and a downed boat, with the siblings wondering if they could get it sea-worthy).
Tragedy strikes one day when David while pretending to fight pirates during a storm, falls into the river, is struck by lightning, and dies. The family copes in different ways; with Jack, a model maker, returning to his bad gambling habits and Rose intending to make a green felt hat that would have been David's birthday present.
To make payments, Peter and Alice go to sell a family heirloom silver pocket watch, during which they shelter a group of street urchins who have pickpocketed an intimidating criminal.
Both siblings meet an eccentric shopkeeper, Hatter (Mad Hatter), who leads them to a money lender and lower crime boss Captain James or CJ (Captain Hook) who, unbeknownst to both of them, is their uncle. Peter later runs into the very same street kids he met earlier who reveal they are known as the Lost Boys and that they have been to a place known only to children called Never Neverland and offer to take him there. Jack later visits his brother to call off his debt collectors, with a jealous James crippling his brother (as a show of loyalty to his crime paymasters) leading to Jack losing his hand.
Peter responds by seeking out these Lost Boys to help rob James of the fortune of gold coins Peter spied on earlier that he is safeguarding for the various criminal organizations of London's underworld. When James catches his nephew in the act Peter cuts off his uncle's hand in a sword duel before fleeing.
With his uncle and cohorts hot on his heels, Peter is forced to run away from home, taking his late brother's newly finished hat with the eagle feather in it and dressed in his brother's hand me down green clothes.
Alice last spies Peter on the now fixed boat sailing away crewed by the Lost Boys who are taking her brother to Never Neverland (with the ship apparently being pulled into the air by the wind itself thanks to a fairy, Tinker Bell, who was disguised as a little brass bell that Alice came across). Peter briefly returns to stop by while his family sleeps to deposit some of the stolen coins, which he irregularly does over the years to support his loved ones.
The mother finishes telling her story which has now been established as being of Alice's own early life to her children, who are revealed to be Wendy Darling and her brothers, John and Michael.
Coming back from going out for the evening with her husband Mr. Darling (George Darling), Alice suddenly hears a familiar crowing that both her brothers used to do and heads upstairs to find the children's bedroom windows thrown wide open and a notable eagle feather on the floor beneath said window. She looks out of their window at the night sky, hoping it was her brother who came to take his niece and nephews off to this supposed Never Neverland and will likely look after them while they are there.