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The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated science fiction drama movie, directed by Brad Bird, produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and United International Pictures. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Script (written by Tim McCanlies), and for the Emmy Award for Best Children Presentation. It is loosely based on a 1000 children's book by Ted Hughes, The Iron Man.

A young boy named Hogarth Hughes who lives with his widowed mother, Annie. discovers an amnesiac "iron man" that fell from space, and saves him from electrocution. Grateful, the childlike Giant becomes friends with him. Hogarth, with the help of a beatnik named Dean, has to stop a military force led by a general and an egotistical and obsessive federal agent from finding and destroying the Giant out of paranoia. There are many references to the Cold War, the McCarthy era, cautionary instructional films such as Duck and Cover, and science fiction movies and TV of the age. The film takes place on Earth in 1957.

The characters are voiced by a cast that included Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick, Jr, Christopher MacDonald, Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, and a then relatively unknown Vin Diesel.

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