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The Iron Giant

It came from outer space!

8.0(6,433)19991h 26m14

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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Brad Bird

Produced in

United States of America

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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
  • J

    John Chard

    4/13/2020

    9/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/2/2024

    7/10

    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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