Brand new factory sealed dvd of a wonderful film, anyone who sees this animated feature can quickly discern its appeal.

The story is set in Rockwell, Maine, in 1957, where Hogarth Hughes (voice of Eli Marienthal) is the son of a single mother, Annie (Jennifer Aniston). One night, Annie works late at the diner where she is employed, and when the TV antenna on his house goes haywire, the precocious Hogarth, engaged in imagintive play, wanders into the nearby woods and spies the massive IRON GIANT (Vin Diesel) lurking near an electrical power station.

The Giant, of mysterious alien origin, tries to satisfy its voracious appetite for metal by eating the power station girders, but when he falls prey to the power lines, Hogarth, acting on his inherrant compassion, saves the Giant's life.

Once he saves the Giant, the latter views Hogarth as a surrogate parent, and Hogarth finds himself protecting the Giant from a relentlessly xenophobic government agent, Kent Mansley (Christopher MacDonald), who wishes only to destroy anything alien.

As he hides the Giant, Hogarth teaches him language, but more importantly, he instills in the Giant the values of independent thought, responsibility for one's actions and, most of all, a strong anti-war idealogy. When agent Mansley insinuates himself into Hogarth's family and privacy by renting a spare room in the house, the child must find a safe place for the Giant, but also a food source for him, so he enlists the help of a local beatnick Dean McCoppen (Harry Connick, Jr.), who collects scrap iron for his avant-garde sculptures.

Despite Hogarth's best efforts, government officials close in on the Giant, and the Giant must use both his technological superiority and his "human compassion" to abort a nuclear warhead that will destroy the entire area.

The film's PG rating makes clear that its targeted audience was not just children, but also teens and adults as well.