| Release Date | 31 July 1999 |
| Budget | $48,000,000 |
| US Box Office | $23,000,000 |
| Tagline | It came from outer space! |
| Genre | Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Animated |
| Film Class | Children's Fantasy |
| Niche Genre | Children's/Family |
| Themes | Benign Aliens, Robots and Androids, Fish Out of Water |
| Tones | Heartwarming, Poignant, Bittersweet, Witty, Ominous, Paranoid |
| Tags | Daydream, Fear, Friendship, Prejudice, Robot, Sculptor |
The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney. The film tells the story of a lonely boy named Hogarth raised by his widowed mother, discovering a giant iron man who fell from space. Hogarth, with the help of a beatnik named Dean, has to stop the U.S. military and a federal agent from finding and destroying the Giant. The Iron Giant takes place during the height of the Cold War (1957).