Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter who has worked on projects such as the films Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story, Money Talks, and Garfield: The Movie. He is a frequent collaborator of Joel Cohen.
When a robot falls from outer space in 1957 Rockwell Maine, nine year old Hogarth Hughes befriends the fifty foot robot with an appetite for metal. But Government agent, Kent Mansley is on his trail in hopes of destroying this invader.