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Does anyone know this film from a very vague description

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DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 26/05/2020 17:07

My dd wants to watch a film she has seen before and I cannot fathom out what it is at all.

Description is

A film with real people in it.

There are some little boys and a man, the man needed car parts, the boys would get a square of chocolate if they got a good car part.

Oneof the boys found something and a monster thing started chasing the boy around the world.

The monster may possibly look something like a war of the worlds robot.

The boy ended up at a house a woman fed him and let him stay, he went out onto the balcony in the morning and the robot/monster thing was there and he had to run again.

Any ideas? I am absolutely stuck.

TIA

OP posts:
7ofNine · 26/05/2020 17:10

How old is your child? (I mean, can we rule out films rated 12/15/18 for example?)

7ofNine · 26/05/2020 17:11

Mortal engines is something that comes to mind.
Or Box Trolls.
Or Robots.
(If they're young, and a little confused)

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 26/05/2020 17:12

Shes 12 and watched it when she was around 7 or 8 apparently.

She doesn't know if it's an old film or new one at that time though.

I'm totally puzzled.

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7ofNine · 26/05/2020 17:15

Scrub mortal engines then, too new.
Box trolls?

7ofNine · 26/05/2020 17:15

Oh but that's animated, not live action, sorry!

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 26/05/2020 17:16

None of those ones, it's not iron giant either, although it sounds like the script for that.

Thanks for trying.

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BarbaraWoodlouse · 26/05/2020 17:16

It’s not The Iron Giant is it? Not sure I’ve seen it so going via the image on the poster, not the plot.

glitterbiscuits · 26/05/2020 17:17

We thought Iron Giant too but that's animated.

BarbaraWoodlouse · 26/05/2020 17:18

Oops!

RinderTinderNotRinderGrinder · 26/05/2020 17:18

Transformers?

glitterbiscuits · 26/05/2020 17:20

There's a bit of Star Wars Phantom Menace in this description. When Anakin is working in Scrap Yard.

geordiema77 · 26/05/2020 17:20

Where did she watch it? At a party/ sleepover or at the cinema?

hootatoot · 26/05/2020 17:24

Hugo?

Ukholidaysaregreat · 26/05/2020 17:29

I thought box trolls!

Mooey89 · 26/05/2020 17:46

Monster trucks?
Possibly Peres dragon if she’s got the idea a bit wrong?

7ofNine · 26/05/2020 18:46

Is there a chance it's "Spare Parts", came out in 2015, so about the right amount of time ago? The boys use salvaged car parts to build a robot (but for a robot wars type thing, not to defeat another invading robot).

7ofNine · 26/05/2020 18:49

Or Robot Overlords? Also 2015

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