The Iron Giant (1999) on Netflix
PG19991h 26mActionAdventureAnimation
In 1957 Rockwell, Maine, nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes finds a giant robot feeding on power lines. He hides the Giant with artist Dean McCoppin while federal agent Kent Mansley hunts it.
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Plot summary
Set in the 1950's, Hogarth, a young boy from Maine, befriends a massive robot that crashed onto Earth, the Iron Giant. While developing a friendship with it, Kent Mansley, a government agent, will stop at nothing to destroy it, and will not change his mind. Because of the boy's attachment with the robot, he'll try to stall Kent's progress, such as using a different chocolate for Kent's sundae. He's also kept the robot at Dean's scrapyard, despite his reluctance to keep him there. But their mutual hatred of Kent's cruel intentions might just keep the friendship between them.
Cast
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- Devon Cole Borisoffas Additional Voices (voice) (as Devon Borisoff)
- Zack Egintonas Additional Voices (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Iron Giant (1999)
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- The crew was understaffed and completed The Iron Giant with half the time and budget of other animated features.
- The Iron Giant was a box-office failure, grossing $31.7 million against a $50 million production budget, which was blamed on a lack of marketing and Warner Bros.' skepticism toward animated films after Quest for Camelot flopped the year before.
- The Iron Giant won nine Annie Awards out of 15 nominations, and later built a cult following through home video and television syndication.
- While working on the film, Brad Bird was dealing with his sister's death; she had been shot and killed by her estranged husband. This helped shape his pitch to Warner Bros., built on the idea "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun?"
- The Giant was built from 7,000 computer-generated parts, 10,000 in battle mode, and animated "on twos" when interacting with other characters to make it less obvious he was a computer model.
- Michael Kamen's score was recorded over one week at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic, without conventional syncing, and won the Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production.
