

The Iron Giant
It came from outer space!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50M
- Box office
- $23.3M
- Language
- English
- friendship
- small town
- based on novel or book
- self sacrifice
- villain
- maine
- meteorite
- robot
- crash landing
- transforming robot
- fear of unknown
- 1950s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Premiere31 Jul 1999
- TheatricalPG6 Aug 1999
- PhysicalPGVHS / DVD23 Nov 1999
- PhysicalPGLaserdisc21 Dec 1999
- PhysicalPGBlu-ray6 Sept 2016
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU17 Dec 1999
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG6 Apr 2000
ArgentinaAR
- TheatricalATP1 Dec 2000
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1422 Dec 1999
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL14 Jan 2000
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical717 Dec 1999
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-725 Dec 1999
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP8 Dec 1999
GermanyDE
- Theatrical616 Dec 1999
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1212 Sept 2000
IcelandIS
- TheatricalL26 Dec 1999
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The Iron Giant was released on 6 August 1999.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
4/13/2020
You are who you choose to be. It's the 1950s and young Hogarth Hughes happens upon a visitor from space ..... in the form of a giant iron man. Delightful animation adaptation of Ted Hughes' much beloved 1968 novel "The Iron Man". Set during the period of time when Cold War and sci-fi paranoia was prevalent, The Iron Giant embraces these themes and stokes them with lessons of friendship, hatred, death and pertin…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/2/2024
When a ship is caught up in a storm, it's captain finds the most unlikely of saviours - but nobody back in the town of "Rockwell" believes him! Hardly surprising as he claimed to have been rescued by an hundred foot robot with bright yellow eyes. "Hogarth" is an enthusiastic young lad who wants to keep a pet. His mother ("Annie") is having nothing to do with this, especially after one of his candidates manages to jus…
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