The Iron Giant: Signature Edition [Blu-ray]

Overview

Digitally re-mastered and rereleased to the silver screen, this box-office misfire became a beloved animated work and cult favorite. A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien invasions and doing battle with Communist agents. One day, Hogarth hears a local fisherman talk about something that surpasses anything he could dream up: a fifty-foot robot that fell from the sky into a nearby lake. Needless to say, Hogarth's mom, Annie (voice of Jennifer Aniston) finds this a little hard to swallow, but when Hogarth finds the robot (voice of Vin Diesel) and fishes him out of the water, his pal Dean (voice of Harry Connick Jr.), a beatnik sculptor who also runs a junkyard, offers to help by hiding the robot with his salvage. A government agent named Kent Mansley (voice of Christopher McDonald) soon gets wind that there's a mechanical invader of unknown origins in the neighborhood and wants to wipe out the potential threat. However, the robot (which loves to eat metal and is learning to talk) turns out to be friendly, and the boy in turn tries to teach his new pal the ways of humans.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/06/2016
UPC:	0883929525294
Original Release:	2015
Rating:	PG
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	2,856

Special Features

The Giant's Dream: a brand-new documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, only to become regarded as a classic over a decade after its initial release; Feature-length commentaries by director Brad Bird, head of animation Tony Fucile, story department head Jeff Lynch and Giant animation supervisor Steven Markowski; The making of The Iron Giant, hosted by Vin Diesel and featuring interviews with the cast and crew; Deleted scenes; Original opening sequences and featurettes that give you an inside look into the score, character design, storyboards and animation; Motion gallery; Theatrical trailers and more!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eli Marienthal	Hogarth Hughes
Vin Diesel	The Iron Giant
Jennifer Aniston	Annie Hughes
Harry Connick Jr.	Dean McCoppin
Cloris Leachman	Mrs. Lynley
James Gammon	Voices
Christopher MacDonald	Voices
John Mahoney	Voices
M. Emmet Walsh	Voices
Mary Kay Bergman	Voices
Ollie Johnston	Voices
Bob Bergen	Actor
Devon Cole Borisoff	Actor
Mickie McGowan	Actor
Pat Fry	Actor
Carole Jeghers	Actor
Jack Paar	Actor
Patrick Pinney	Actor
Annette Heick	Voices
Donald Andersen	Voices
John Hahn-Petersen	Voices
Nis Bank-Mikkelsen	Voices
Peter Aude	Voices
Michael Kamen	Composer

Technical Credits

Brad Bird

Tim McCanlies

Brent Forrester

Brad Bird	Director,Screenwriter
Tim McCanlies	Screenwriter
Allison Abbate	Producer
Marci Liroff	Casting
Des McAnuff	Producer
Pete Townshend	Executive Producer
Brent Forrester	Screenwriter