James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Directed by

Henry Selick

Genre

fantasy film, musical film, children's film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 1,451 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young orphan boy named James escapes his cruel aunts by traveling inside a giant magical peach. He sails across the ocean with a group of friendly oversized insects he meets inside the fruit.

whimsicaldreamlikeadventurousheartfeltvisually lushdarkly whimsicalhopefulescapist

What happens

James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. Combining live-action and stop-motion animation, it was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, and starred Paul Terry as James. Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's self-absorbed Aunts Spiker and Sponge, respectively, and Pete Postlethwaite played the old man who gives James crocodile tongues (in the live-action segments), with Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon, and David Thewlis, as well as Margolyes, voicing his insect friends in the animation sequences. Released on April 12, 1996 in the United States, the film received highly positive reviews, with many critics praising the story and visuals. However, the film was a box office failure, grossing $28.9 million against its $38 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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