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 Released: 1996
Tim Burton and Henry Selleck (the producer and director of The Nightmare Before Christmas) bring one of Roald Dahl's most beloved stories to life.
James is a young boy living a carefree life with his parents by the English seashore. But all that changes when mummy and daddy are eaten by a mysterious "rhino" that comes out from a storm. James now lives with his horrible, cruel, and bug-hating Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, who treat him miserably and always put him to work. While helping a spider escape from the house, James meets a strange old man who sympathizes with the poor boyand gives him a bag of shimmering "crocodile tongues" that can help James' wish come true: to leave behind his sadness and visit New York City.
James trips while running back to the house and the "tongues" escape. Out of nowhere, a peach blossoms from the old tree nearby and grows to be as huge as the house on the hill. After the aunts show off the peach for money, James risks taking a bite just of it just as one of the "tongues" jumps into it.
(This is the point in the movie where everything becomes stop-mtion animation.)
A hole appears in the peach, James climbs in and befriends a colorful assortment of bugs living inside: a prim and proper ladybug, a centipede from Brooklyn, a neurotic earthworm, a French beatnik spider, a grasshopper who plays classical music, and nice but very deaf glowworm. Together they escape from the aunts and take the big peach to the Big Apple, encountering sharks, pirate skellingtons, and the infamous Rhino along the way.
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