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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.