James and the Giant Peach is Henry Selick’s underrated masterpiece

James and the Giant Peach is a Disney film based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl. In it, a young boy named James is orphaned after his parents are, as Dahl put it, “eaten up by an enormous angry rhinoceros.” Forced to live with his mean aunts, James is lonely until a weird series of events causes a magical peach to grow on a long-dead tree on his aunts’ property. It grows until it’s as big as a house. Then James finds an entry hole in the peach and climbs inside.