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The Iron Giant

“It came from outer space!”

1999 · 1 h 26 min
Directed by Brad Bird
ActionAdventureAnimation

Cast

Eli Marienthal Harry Connick Jr. Jennifer Aniston Vin Diesel James Gammon Cloris Leachman

Plot

In 1957 Maine, a nine-year-old boy befriends a huge metal robot from space, and hides it from the paranoid government, in a hand-drawn animation about choosing who you are.

Sinekatalog’s take

A warm, moving and beautifully animated classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1 / 10 (266,590 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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