Iron giant (Motion picture) Ant bully (Motion picture) Racing stripes (Motion picture) Kangaroo Jack (Motion picture)
Notes:
"The iron giant" is based on the novella by Ted Hughes; "The ant bully" is based on the book by John Nickle. Features: Racing stripes: director commentary, deleted scenes, alternate ending, barnyard outtakes reel, 3 behind-the-scenes featurettes; Kangaroo Jack: 2 commentaries, 3 making-of featurettes; The Iron Giant: director commentary, additional scenes, 13 branching minidocumentary segments, featurettes on the voice of the giant and analyzing the Annie meets Kenty and Duck and cover scenes; The Ant Bully: 7 hilarious animated shorts, "It takes a colony" featurette. Racing stripes: Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere; Kangaroo Jack: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson; The iron giant: Voices: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr.; The ant bully: Voices: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage. Originally released as motion pictures 1999-2006.
Contents:
Racing stripes (2005, 102 min.) / directed by Frederik Du Chau ; story by David Schmidt ... [et al.] ; screenplay by David Schmidt -- Kangaroo Jack (2003, 89 min.) / directed by David McNally ; story by Steve Bing and Barry O'Brien ; screenplay by Steve Bing and Scott Rosenberg -- The iron giant (1999, 87 min.) / directed by Brad Bird ; produced by Allison Abbate, Dis McAnuff ; screenplay by Tim McCanlies -- The ant bully (2006, 89 min.) / produced by John A. Davis, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks ; screenplay written and directed by John A. Davis.
Summary:
After being accidentally abandoned, Stripes is raised on a farm and wants to enter a horse race, even though he is a zebra; Two young men from Brooklyn get into trouble when the $50,000 in mob money they are supposed to deliver is stolen by a troublesome kangaroo; A young boy meets a 50 foot tall, steel-eating giant who he tries to keep secret from everyone, including a nosey government agent; When Lucas is fed up with being bullied and takes it out on the ants in his backyard by destroying their hill, he is magically shrunk down by the ant wizard and forced to labor in the ruins.
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