James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Name: James and the Giant Peach
Director: Henry Selick
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Released: 1996
Duration: 79 min

"Adventures this big don't grow on trees."

ThumbScore

👍 73%Google users liked it ⓘ

Critics Score

🎬 84% (RT: 91%, MC: 78)

AdventureAnimationFamilyFantasy

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Director

Henry Selick

Runtime

1h 19m

Country

United States of America

Language

English

TMDB Rating

6.6/10 (1,415 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

91%

Metacritic

Cast

Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter

Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) · 73% avg

Joanna Lumley as Aunt Spiker · 68% avg

Pete Postlethwaite as The Magic Man · 74% avg

Simon Callow as Grasshopper (voice) · 77% avg

Richard Dreyfuss as Centipede (voice) · 71% avg

Jane Leeves as Ladybug (voice)

Susan Sarandon as Miss Spider (voice) · 70% avg

Is James and the Giant Peach good?

Most people think so. 73% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 84%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre

#899 / 1446 · Adventure

Rank in its year

#62 / 92 · 1996

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗