The IRON GIANT (1999)

Jennifer ANISTON …. Annie Hughes (voice)
Harry CONNICK Jr. …. Dean McCoppin (voice)
Vin DIESEL …. The Iron Giant (voice)
James GAMMON …. Marv Loach/Floyd Turbeaux/General Sudokoff (voice)
Cloris LEACHMAN …. Mrs. Lynley Tensedge (voice)
Christopher McDONALD …. Kent Mansley (voice) (as Christopher MacDonald)
John MAHOONEY …. General Rogard (voice)

In 1957, a giant metal robot crash-lands just off the coast of Rockwell, Maine. In a hurricane, the Giant is seen by a man in a boat, who narrowly survives by washing up on land by the Rockwell lighthouse. After the big metal man eats a television antenna from a house dangerously close to the woods, the boy who lives there, Hogarth Hughes, follows its huge footprints into the dense forest. There, the Giant becomes entangled in wires at a power station, electrocuting it. Hogarth shuts off the power, saving the robot. The next day he finds the robot again, and it follows him to his house. On the way, the Giant discovers train tracks. He attempts to eat them, but Hogarth explains that train tracks are off limits. While trying to fix the tracks, an upcoming train collides with the Giant. Hogarth panics, as the collision caused the robot to lose its arm and a jaw bolt, but he realizes that the Giant is assembling itself back together because of an apparent repair signal from its head. Meanwhile, Kent Mansley, a pompous, self-centered and paranoid U.S. Government agent, arrives in town to investigate the sightings and stories amongst the citizens.

Adapté du livre de Ted Huges, "The Iron Man", qui avait inventé ce récit pour consoler ses deux jeunes enfants de la disparition précoce de leur mère, la poètesse américaine Sylvia Plath, "le Géant de fer" évoque la touchante amitié d'un petit garçon et d'un robot géant venu d'une planète inconnue. Bien sûr toute la ville, puis bientôt le gouvernement et l'armée américaine vont prendre en chasse le géant et son petit ami qu'ils prennent pour les prémices d'une attaque ennemie.