Aug 6, 1999 · The Iron Giant: Directed by Brad Bird. With Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon. A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

In October 1957, during the Cold War, an object (Vin Diesel) from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine and then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell. A fishing boat collides with the object, which appears to be a giant robot made of Iron.

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This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs.

The Iron Giant revolves around an adventurous young boy in 1950s small-town America who discovers a gigantic robot out in the woods that has arrived on Earth from goodness-knows-where. He befriends the robot, while trying to keep him safe from a nosy government agent.

The story is deceptively simple: Iron Giant falls from the sky at the dawn of the Space Race and befriends a young boy. But within that framework we get a double story, one for the grown ups and one for the kids, but the message is essentially …

When Roboto reveals how Duck Dodgers has wronged him in the past, it features an exchange between them that spoofs the one between The Iron Giant and Hogarth towards the end of the film.

Hogarth Hughes : He's a giant robot. It's a little undignified. Dean McCoppin : It is? Well then, smart guy, what would you have him do?

[Giant looks at a comic with a robot like himself on the cover] Hogarth Hughes: Oh, that's Atomo, the metal menace. He's not a hero, he's a villain. But you're not like him. You're a good guy, like Superman. The Iron Giant: Super... man.

In 1957, a large alien robot crashes from orbit near the coast of Rockwell, Maine with no memory. Shortly after, the Iron Giant wanders off into the mainland. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes follows a trail of the forest's destruction and frees the robot, who is stuck in the power cables of an electrical substation.