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The Iron Giant
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PG,1hr 26min
Genres:
Family,Sci-Fi
Released:
August 6, 1999
Director:
Brad Bird
Distributor:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring:
Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston  ...more
Synopsis: A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien invasions and doing battle with Communist agents. One day, Hogarth hears a local fisherman talk about something that surpasses anything he could dream up: a fifty-foot robot that fell from the sky into ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong
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The Iron Giant is a wondrous animated fairy tale of post-Sputnik paranoia and the related fears of "otherness" that carries with it warm messages about friendship and non-violence. What should have been an unqualified hit, however, managed a scant $23 million at the box office due to an infamously indifferent advertising campaign by Warner Bros., which demonstrated that its animation competitors (Disney ... Full Review
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Eli Marienthal
Hogarth Hughes
Vin Diesel
The Iron Giant
Jennifer Aniston
Annie Hughes
Harry Connick Jr.
Dean McCoppen
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