Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) on Netflix
PG-1320131h 54mAdventureComedyFamilyFantasy
Jack, a farmhand, trades his uncle's horse for magic beans from a monk. When rain wets one, a beanstalk carries Princess Isabelle and Jack's house up to the giants' realm.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.3/10156,821 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes52%
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Plot summary
In the kingdom of Cloister, monks once grew beans whose stalk climbed to Gantua, the giants' land, until King Erik used a crown made from a giant's heart to send the giants back and the stalk was cut down. The crown and the last beans were buried with him. Years later Jack, a farmhand, is sent to sell his uncle's horse and comes home instead with a pouch of the monk's beans. Princess Isabelle, who does not wish to marry her father's advisor Roderick, slips away from the castle during a storm and takes shelter at Jack's home. Rainwater wets a bean, and a stalk lifts the house, with Isabelle inside, into the sky. King Brahmwell sends his guard captain Elmont and Roderick after her, and Jack joins them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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- Scenes were shot at Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean near Coleford, Gloucestershire, a wood of unusual tree and rock formations already used for the BBC series Doctor Who and Merlin, and said to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to write The Hobbit.
