October, 1957. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes finds and befriends a huge, metal-eating robot with an insatiable curiosity and equally insatiable appetite. But the robot's presence unleashes a wave of Cold War paranoia that threatens to engulf the town unless Hogarth and his 50-foot friend can stop it, in this endearing animated tale featuring voices of Jennifer Aniston and Vin Diesel.