Production
The film begins with normal live-action for the first 20 minutes, but becomes stop-motion animation after James enters the peach, and then live-action when James enters New York City, New York (although the mutated insect characters remained in stop-motion). Selick had originally planned for James to be a real actor through the entire film, then later considered doing the whole film in stop-motion, but ultimately settled on doing entirely live-action and entirely stop-motion sequences because of costs. Unlike the novel, James' aunts are not killed by the rolling peach (though his parents' deaths also occur like the novel) and follow him to New York, and the film also has James dream of going to New York instead of simply winding up there.
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