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WUD Film Presents: The Iron Giant (1999)

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WUD Film Presents: The Iron Giant (1999)

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Friday, March 24
6:30 - 8:15 pm
Union South | The Marquee
Cost: Free
WUD Film presents a single screening of The Iron Giant (1999) for our Animation is Film festival!
USA | 86 min | PG | DCP | Dir. Brad Bird
   
"A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy." - (IMBD)
 
"In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine." - (Rotten Tomatoes)
 
 

For information on available assistive content for WUD Film screenings, please visit the Assistive Movie Screenings in the Marquee Theater page.
 
 
This event is intended for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, Wisconsin Union members and their guests. Anyone can become a Wisconsin Union member. 

USA | 86 min | PG | DCP | Dir. Brad Bird
   
"A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy." - (IMBD)
 
"In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine." - (Rotten Tomatoes)
 
 

For information on available assistive content for WUD Film screenings, please visit the Assistive Movie Screenings in the Marquee Theater page.
 
 
This event is intended for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, Wisconsin Union members and their guests. Anyone can become a Wisconsin Union member. 

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608-262-1143

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