---
title: 'James and the Giant Peach (1996)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Henry Selick'
released: '1996-04-12'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Family'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/james-and-the-giant-peach-1996'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116683/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# James and the Giant Peach (1996)

1996 · 79 min · Fantasy, Music, Family · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. Combining live-action and stop-motion animation, it was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, and starred Paul Terry as James. Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's self-absorbed Aunts Spiker and Sponge, respectively, and Pete Postlethwaite played the old man who gives James crocodile tongues, with Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon, and David Thewlis, as well as Margolyes, voicing his insect friends in the animation sequences.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Henry Selick](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-selick)
- **Producer:** [Henry Selick](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-selick), [Tim Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-burton), [Denise Di Novi](https://cinepixo.com/people/denise-di-novi)
- **Screenplay:** [Jonathan Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-roberts), [Karey Kirkpatrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/karey-kirkpatrick)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Randy Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/randy-newman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Hiro Narita](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiro-narita)

## Cast

- [Mike Starr](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-starr)
- [Miriam Margolyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miriam-margolyes)
- [Pete Postlethwaite](https://cinepixo.com/people/pete-postlethwaite)
- [Steven Culp](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-culp)
- [Paul Terry](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-terry)
- [Joanna Lumley](https://cinepixo.com/people/joanna-lumley)

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Official site: http://movies.disney.com/james-and-the-giant-peach
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/james-and-the-giant-peach-1996
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