Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- insect
- england
- magic
- loss of loved one
- garden
- villain
- musical
- surrealism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Paul Terry
James Henry Trotter
Miriam Margolyes
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Joanna Lumley
Aunt Spiker
Pete Postlethwaite
The Magic Man
- Simon Callow — Grasshopper (voice)
- Richard Dreyfuss — Centipede (voice)
- Jane Leeves — Ladybug (voice)
- Susan Sarandon — Miss Spider (voice)
- David Thewlis — Earthworm (voice)
- Steven Culp — James' Father
- Susan Turner-Cray — James' Mother
- Cirocco Dunlap — Girl with Telescope
- Kathryn Howell — Woman in Bathrobe
- Mike Starr — Cop
- Michael Girardin — Reporter #1
- Directed
- Henry Selick
- Written
- Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 1,470 ratings
- Studio
- Allied Filmmakers, Walt Disney Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
