James and the Giant Peach (1996)

★ 6.6 1h 19m 1,439 votes IMDb
Fantasy Animated Adventure Family
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When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

James and the Giant Peach

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Cast

Paul Terry
Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter Age 40 · Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK An actor, known for James and the Giant Peach (1996) and Microsoap (1998)..
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) Age 85 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK Miriam Margolyes (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles...
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley as Aunt Spiker Age 80 · Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Sto...
Pete Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite as The Magic Man Died 2011 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (February 7, 1946 – January 2, 2011) was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlet...
Simon Callow
Simon Callow as Grasshopper (voice) Age 77 · Streatham, London, England, UK Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor. Known as a character actor on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Award and Screen Actors G...
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss as Centipede (voice) Age 78 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters...
Director Henry Selick
Cast Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon, David Thewlis, Steven Culp

Audience Reviews

r96sk 7/10 Jul 13, 2022
A little light on story, though that stop-motion animation is noice.

At just under 1hr 20mins, <em>'James and the Giant Peach</em> is simply a pleasant to watch flick with a sweet story and excellent animation. Miriam Margolyes and Joanna Lumley as the aunts is great casting, while the voice cast all perform well.

I like it enough, even with the ineffective singing bits. Overall, this 1996 release is, in my opinion, nothing great but nothing bad either.

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