James and the Giant Peach (film)
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| Directed by | Henry Selick |
| Produced by |
Denise Di Novi Tim Burton |
| Screenplay by |
Karey Kirkpatrick Jonathan Roberts Steve Bloom |
| Based on |
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
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| Music by | Randy Newman |
| Cinematography | Pete Kozachik Hiro Narita |
| Edited by | Stan Webb |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38 million |
| Box office | $28.9 million (U.S.) |
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| Soundtrack album by Randy Newman | |
| Released | 12 April 1996 |
| Length | 50:03 |
| Label | Walt Disney Records |
James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American 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, directed by Henry Selick, and starred Paul Terry as James. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Co-stars Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, David Thewlis, and Margoyles voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences.
James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in England. On James' birthday, they plan to go 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 James finds himself living with his two ignorant and cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge.
He is forced to work all day and they antagonize him by threatening him with beatings to keep him in line and torment him about the mysterious rhino and other hazards if he ever attempts to escape. 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 man instructs him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground.
This transforms a peach on a withered old tree into enormous proportions. Spiker and Sponge sell tickets to view the giant peach. James crawls inside a large hole he inadvertently creates in the peach, and he finds and befriends a group of life-size anthropomorphic bugs (Mr. Grasshopper, Mr. Centipede, Earthworm, Miss Spider, Mrs. Ladybug, and Glowworm). As they hear the aunts search for James, Mr. Centipede cuts the stem connecting the giant peach to the tree and the peach rolls away to the Atlantic Ocean.
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