Name: The Iron Giant
Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Drama
Released: 1999
Duration: 1 h 26 min

The Iron Giant (1999)

Directed by Brad Bird

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The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The film is directed by Brad Bird and produced by Allison Abbate and Des McAnuff, from a screenplay written by Tim McCanlies, and based on a story treatment by Bird. The film stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.

Movie Info

Official Site

https://www.warnerbros.com/iron-giant

Budget

$70,000,000

Box Office

$23,180,087

Themes

Cult

Attributes

Based On: The Iron Man
Narrative Location: Maine
Subject: artificial intelligence, Cold War, first contact fiction, human bonding, national security, pacifism
Time Period: 1957, Cold War