The Iron Giant
Brad Bird best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. "Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story, 'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Hogarth, an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien invasions. One day, Hogarth hears a local fisherman talk about something that surpasses anything he could dream up: a fifty-foot robot that fell from the sky into a nearby lake. Hogarth finds the robot and fishes him out of the water. A government agent named Kent Mansley soon gets wind that there's a mechanical invader of unknown origins in the neighborhood and wants to wipe out the potential threat. However, the robot (which loves to eat metal and is learning to talk) turns out to be friendly, and the boy in turn tries to teach his new pal the ways of humans.
Director: Brad Bird, USA 1999, PG, 86 min
Voices: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr. and Jennifer Aniston
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