My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.
The story is based on the 1982 book by Roald Dahl, who among others wrote the screenplay for "You Only Live Twice" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", and writer of source stories for a number of movies and TV shows.
In the core story a 10-yr-old orphan in London, Ruby Barnhill as Sophie, looks out her window late one night and sees a giant in the street. He is concerned that she will tell everyone so he reaches in and takes her in his hand, and brings her back to his land of giants. It turns out he is the smallest of the giants, the others, who are also mean, refer to him as "runt."
Plus, the other giants long for a morsel of "human bean" so much of the middle of the story involves the giant, which she names "B.F.G.", helping her avoid being eaten.
In the end both of them end up at Buckingham Palace and have breakfast with the Queen. They convince her to use the military and their lifting helicopters to go the the land of the giants and capture them, depositing them in the ocean near a small island away from everything else, where they can live in exile, growing a sort of nasty squash for food.
A very entertaining movie. I can't say enough good things about young Ruby Barnhill as Sophie. She has such a nice, natural acting style, she is totally believable in a fictional way.
The story is based on the 1982 book by Roald Dahl, who among others wrote the screenplay for "You Only Live Twice" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", and writer of source stories for a number of movies and TV shows.
In the core story a 10-yr-old orphan in London, Ruby Barnhill as Sophie, looks out her window late one night and sees a giant in the street. He is concerned that she will tell everyone so he reaches in and takes her in his hand, and brings her back to his land of giants. It turns out he is the smallest of the giants, the others, who are also mean, refer to him as "runt."
Plus, the other giants long for a morsel of "human bean" so much of the middle of the story involves the giant, which she names "B.F.G.", helping her avoid being eaten.
In the end both of them end up at Buckingham Palace and have breakfast with the Queen. They convince her to use the military and their lifting helicopters to go the the land of the giants and capture them, depositing them in the ocean near a small island away from everything else, where they can live in exile, growing a sort of nasty squash for food.
A very entertaining movie. I can't say enough good things about young Ruby Barnhill as Sophie. She has such a nice, natural acting style, she is totally believable in a fictional way.