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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Iron Giant, it builds a tender bond between a childlike nonhuman outsider and a living world, balancing visual wonder, gentle humor, and an emotionally resonant question of what kindness can make possible.
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Why this pick
Its intimate child-and-outsider friendship carries the same mix of suburban adventure, secrecy from fearful adults, playful discovery, and sincere feeling that makes The Iron Giant so enduring.
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Why this pick
For a more melancholic companion, it also asks viewers to see a manufactured being as profoundly vulnerable, pairing retro-futurist imagery with a child’s-eye emotional journey.
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Why this pick
Its dialogue-free storytelling finds enormous tenderness in a friendship between a lonely person and a robot, with expressive animation and an emotional directness that echo The Iron Giant’s compassion.
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01 / THE STORY
During the Cold War shortly after the Soviet Union launches ''Sputnik 1'' in October 1957, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine, then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes investigates and finds a giant robot attempting to eat the transmission lines of an electrical substation. Hogarth eventually befriends the Giant, finding it docile and curious. When it eats railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train, the train collides with it and derails, and Hogarth leads the Giant away from the scene, discovering that it can self-repair. While there, Hogarth shows the Giant comic books of the adventures of Superman.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Hogarth Hughes
The Iron Giant
Annie Hughes
Dean McCoppin
Kent Mansley
General Rogard
Earl Stutz
Foreman Marv Loach
