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The Iron Giant
Nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes makes friend with a giant metal machine, but the army are not happy with a robot in the city.
6 March 1986, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 April 1984, Pomona, California, USA
24 October 1930, Modesto, California, USA
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30 April 1926, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
14 November 1952, Pratt, Kansas, USA
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19 June 1946, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
28 July 1940, Goshen, Indiana, USA
5 September 1912, Santa Monica, California, USA
20 June 1940, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
8 March 1964, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
24 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 September 1967, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
20 May 1952, Tacoma, Washington, USA
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February 11, 2016
Watching this again 17 years after its original release, I savoured again the resemblances to Spielberg, Wilde and Brian Forbes's Whistle Down the Wind.August 12, 2014
This is sharp, sophisticated stuff, appreciated on different levels by both parents and children, and even those who are neither. The film has impish humor, great adventure and more than a few thrills.August 04, 2013
Brad Bird fills the CinemaScope screen with wit and beauty in this modern fairy tale.August 12, 2014
A magical evocation of a special time in history and a time in everybody's life when the dream and the nightmare quotients are equally high.February 11, 2016
Tender, moving and exciting for kids (and their secretly tearful parents).August 12, 2014
Wisely, Bird and company eschew the standard Disney formula of catchy show tunes and cuddly animal sidekicks and lead Warner Bros. toward an animation style the studio can call its own.August 12, 2014
This is not exactly standard children's fare, but kids (and their parents) should be smitten by its wit and wisdom.May 04, 2015
In every way, one of the highlights of both animation and family-friendly cinema in the last quarter-century.August 04, 2013
It is in the best tradition of animation: an ideal tale for children that offers a lot to adults as well.August 12, 2014
The Iron Giant's theme of fear of the unknown is craftily balanced against the power of innocent imagination.August 12, 2014
While youngsters will enjoy the film on one level, it reaches out to adults on a completely different plane. They will see an allegory about power and politics and the danger of allowing either to run roughshod over humanity.August 04, 2013
The Iron Giant is not only the best animated feature to be released this summer, it's the single best film to hit our screens so far this year.