The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant), and was written by Tim McCanlies from 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.
Plot
In October 1957, during the Cold War, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine and then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell.
Awards
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author | Brad Bird Karey Kirkpatrick Ted Hughes Tim McCanlies |
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award | Genesis Award |
contentLocation | Maine |
director | Brad Bird |
editor | Darren T. Holmes |
events | artificial intelligence Cold War first contact fiction human bonding national security pacifism |
genre | action animation drama science fiction |
keywords | act arrest beatnik comic book discover fall federal government of the united states government agent iceland kill langjökull laser beam nuclear explosion nuclear missile nuclear weapon paranoia paranoid railroad track remember robot superman talk toy gun u.s. army u.s. government uss nautilus widowed mother win |
musicBy | Michael Kamen |
producer | Allison Abbate Des McAnuff |
productionCompany | Warner Bros. Feature Animation |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
theme | animated coming-of-age military science fiction science fiction action war |