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James and the Giant Peach (1996)
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Overview
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Release Date:
12 April 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
If you really don't go to the movies, you won't see... more
Plot:
An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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3 nominations
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(24 articles)
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(From Filmonic. 28 November 2009, 10:43 AM, PST)
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(From Collider.com. 27 November 2009, 2:41 PM, PST)
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A classic in my home
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Simon Callow | ... | Grasshopper (voice) |
 | Richard Dreyfuss | ... | Centipede (voice) |
 | Jane Leeves | ... | Ladybug (voice) |
 | Joanna Lumley | ... | Aunt Spiker |
 | Miriam Margolyes | ... | Aunt Sponge / The Glowworm (voice) |
 | Pete Postlethwaite | ... | Old Man |
 | Susan Sarandon | ... | Miss Spider (voice) |
| Paul Terry | ... | James |
 | David Thewlis | ... | Earthworm (voice) |
| J. Stephen Coyle | ... | Reporter #2 |
 | Steven Culp | ... | James' Father |
| Cirocco Dunlap | ... | Girl With Telescope |
| Michael Girardin | ... | Reporter #1 |
| Tony Haney | ... | Reporter #3 |
 | Kathryn Howell | ... | Woman in Bathrobe (as Katherine Howell) |
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Rated PG for some frightening images.
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Runtime:
79 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Brazil:Livre |
Iceland:L |
Finland:S |
USA:PG (certificate #34530) |
South Korea:All |
Philippines:G |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Chile:TE |
Germany:6 (bw) |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:M/6 (video premiere) |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
UK:U |
USA:PG
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Andy Partridge, of the British pop group XTC, was originally tapped to write the songs for this film. When Partridge backed out over the compensation he was offered, the producers called on Randy Newman instead. Partridge eventually released demo versions of the four songs he composed for the film.
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Continuity: When James wakes up from the fall onto the Empire State Building, he is inside the peach, with a red light flashing on him. But he has to open the hatch in the peach to get atop it, so, the light shouldn't have illuminated him at all, as it is from a light above the peach.
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Referenced in The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998) (TV)
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Sail Away
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I really enjoyed it, and so did my 3- and 5-year-old (and yes, we read the book). The animation and live-action scenes showed a lot of love. Though elements of the story seemed a bit hurried or neglected, they weren't anything a fairy-tale fantasy couldn't absorb in stride. The music works well enough for this non-fan of musicals, and I prefer serviceable and inoffensive tunes to the treacly jingles and melodramatic scores of the usual Disney classics.
My only real complaint would be with the ending, as it really is unclear how the aunts drove across the ocean (did they obtain their own crocodile tongues?), and the slice of NY upon landing has a grim, Munchkin-town quality. Still, everything up to that point has left you with lots of goodwill towards the movie's makers.