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Release Date: 1996

Cast: David Thewlis, Richard Dreyfuss, Miriam Margolyes, Steven Culp, J. Stephen Coyle, Pete Postlethwaite, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon, Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Mario Yedidia, Simon Callow

Categories: Movies, Stop Motion, Fantasy, Adventure, Children'S/Family, Animation, Children'S Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Fantasy Comedy, Musical

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. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in the United Kingdom. On James' birthday they surprise him by telling him they're going to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and finds himself... MORE

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. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in the United Kingdom. On James' birthday they surprise him by telling him they're going to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and finds himself living with his two abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge. He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings and the mysterious rhino if he tries to leave. While rescuing a spider from being squashed by his aunts, James meets a mysterious man with a bag of magic green "crocodile tongues", which he gives to James to make his life better. The soldier warns him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground. One peach is soon found on a withered old tree, and it grows to immense proportions. Spiker and Sponge LESS