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The Iron Giant(Movie, 1999)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 26min | Genres: Kids & Family, Animation, Science Fiction, Drama
The Iron GiantRating: 4.0/5 (with 24392,439 votes)
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. The film's development began in 1994 as a musical with the involvement of the Who's Pete Townshend, though the project took root once Bird signed on as director and hired McCanlies to write the screenplay in 1996. The film was animated using traditional animation, with computer-generated imagery used to animate the Iron Giant and other effects. The understaffed cre... ()
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"The Iron Giant" is currently available on 2 providers. The Iron Giant can be rented on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (SD/HD/4K) or purchased on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (as a download from the website or as a Blu-ray Disc/DVD).

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Available languages: German, English
Duration: 1h 29min
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Duration: 1h 27min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: German, English
Duration: 1h 29min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 1h 27min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD

Awards & Nominations for The Iron Giant

Genesis Awards

About The Iron Giant

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

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Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Maine
Based on the work of: Ted Hughes ("The Iron Man")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 34 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/16/1999 (World premiere: 08/06/1999)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Железният гигант"
"大铁人"
"铁巨人"
"Raudhiiglane"
"Le Géant Fer"
"Ο ατσάλινος γίγαντας"
"Anak ha'barzel"
"아이언 자이언트"
"El gigante de acero"
"Gutten og jernkjempen"
"Сталевий гігант"
"The Iron Giant: Signature Edition"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:4256, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024