WUD Film Presents: The Iron Giant (1999)

USA | 86 min | PG | DCP | Dir. Brad Bird
   



" A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy." - (IMBD)  
" In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine." - (Rotten Tomatoes)  
 


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