James and the Giant Peach (film)

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James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach film poster
Directed by	Henry Selick
Produced by	Tim Burton Denise Di Novi
Written by	Steven Bloom Karey Kirkpatrick Jonathan Roberts (screenplay) Roald Dahl (book)
Narrated by	Pete Postlethwaite
Starring	Paul Terry Simon Callow Richard Dreyfuss Susan Sarandon Jane Leeves Miriam Margolyes David Thewlis Joanna Lumley
Music by	Randy Newman
Cinematography	Pete Kozachik Hiro Narita
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	1996 April 12 - country past of USSR ( Russia,  Ukraine)
Running time	84 min.
Country	United Kingdom  United States
Language	English
Budget	$38,000,000 USD (estimated)
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James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name. It was produced by Tim Burton, who also produced The Nightmare Before Christmas. The movie is a combination of live action and stop-motion.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Awards 5 Trivia 6 External links

[edit] Plot

A magical, musical fairy tale concerning a little boy, James Henry Trotter, who finds himself living with his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after the death of his parents. Life with his aunts is hard and he dreams of a better place, specifically New York City, a "dream like" place his parents had talked about. His dream comes true when a stranger appears with a bagful of magic which among others things, changes insects (a Grasshopper, Centipede, Lady Bug, Spider, Earthworm, Silk Worm, and Glow Worm) into real life characters and causes an ordinary peach to grow to immense proportions. It's upon this peach that James and his new insect friends travel and make their way toward his "dream land."

[edit] Cast

• Simon Callow as Grasshopper (voice)
• Richard Dreyfuss as Centipede (voice)
• Jane Leeves as Ladybug (voice)
• Susan Sarandon as Miss Spider (voice)
• David Thewlis as Earthworm (voice)
• Joanna Lumley as Aunt Spiker
• Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Sponge/Glowworm
• Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter
• Pete Postlethwaite as Old Man
• Mike Starr as Beat Cop

[edit] Crew

• Directed by Henry Selick
• Produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton
• Screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts and Steve Bloom
• Executive Producer Jake Eberts
• Co-Produced by John Engel, Brian Rosen and Henry Selick
• Original Songs by Randy Newman
• Music by Randy Newman
• Director Of Photography Pete Kozachik and Hiro Narita
• Edited by Stan Webb
• Production Designer Harley Jessup
• Animation Supervisor Paul Berry
• Based On The Book by Roald Dahl

[edit] Awards

The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score (by Randy Newman).

[edit] Trivia

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• The film begins with normal live-action, but becomes stop-motion animation after James enters the peach, and then live-action when James enters New York (although the mutated insect characters remained in stop-motion).
• In the pirate ship scene, the Centipede exclaims, "A Skellington!" upon spotting a skeleton that looks like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) with a beard and pirate gear. Upon finding a compass moments later, he exclaims, "Jackpot!" Another of the skeletons has the bill, sailor's cap, sailor's jacket and voice of Donald Duck. There also is a regular looking Pirate, a Viking and an Inuit.
• 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.
• When Cartoon Network airs this, they censor the part where Grasshopper says "You sir, are an ass!" and replace "ass" with "pedant".

• At the end of the film before the making of the movie, there is a short called "Bash the Aunts" . This is a coin operated game featuring James's aunts.

[edit] External links

• James and the Giant Peach at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• James and the Giant Peach at the Internet Movie Database

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