An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Ten-year-old Sophie is in for the adventure of a lifetime when she meets the Big Friendly Giant. Naturally scared at first, the young girl soon realizes that the twenty-four-foot behemoth is actually quite gentle and charming. As their friendship grows, Sophie's presence attracts the unwanted attention of Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, and other giants. After travelling to London, Sophie and the BFG must convince Queen Elizabeth to help them get rid of all of the bad giants once and for all.—Jwelch5742
In London, insomniac orphan Sophie is awake early morning at 3:00 a.m., afraid of the witching hour. Out of the blue, she sees a giant from the window of her orphanage and she hides in her bed. However, the giant snatches Sophie and takes her to the distant Giant Country. He tells Sophie that she must stay with him for the rest of her life since she saw him. He explains that he works catching dreams and calls him "Big Friendly Giant" or "BFG". He also reads a book to Sophie and she sleeps; then he uses a nightmare to be afraid of escaping being eaten by an evil giant. Soon the giant breaks in BFG's cave and senses the scent of Sophie. She hides and soon she learns that there are giants that devours humans. BFG takes Sophie to the Dream country to catch dreams. The BFG goes to London to return Sophie to the orphanage, but she forces him to take her back to the Giant Country. However the other giants are hunting her down in BFG's home. What will they do?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In July 1983, Sophie, a ten-year-old girl who lives in a London orphanage, stays awake reading through the nights due to her insomnia. At three in the morning, or what she calls the "witching hour", she sees an elderly giant outside of her window. The giant captures her and takes her into Giant Country. There, he explains that Sophie must stay with him for the rest of her life because she saw him, and must not be allowed to reveal the existence of giants. He also explains that she will put herself at risk if she goes out in the open, as nine other giants inhabit Giant Country, all of whom are man-eaters and favor the taste of children.
In the small hours of the night, the insomniac ten-year-old orphan, Sophie, catches a glimpse of a towering shadow outside her quiet London orphanage. Before long, Sophie comes face-to-face with a lumbering giant, who, without a second thought, captures her to take her back to his land: the secret Giant Country. Fortunately, unlike the much bigger flesh-eating inhabitants of his world, this grizzled colossus is a gentle vegetarian creature, tasked with carrying out a noble mission. But, sooner or later, the other residents with the strange names will pick up the faint scent of the little human visitor, and then, no one can stop them. Can the Big Friendly Giant--Sophie's only friend--keep the evils of the world at bay?—Nick Riganas
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), a ten-year-old orphaned girl who lives in a London orphanage, stays awake reading through the nights due to her insomnia. At 3:00 AM or what she calls the "witching hour", she sees an elderly giant (Mark Rylance) outside her window. At that time of the night, Sophie is the only one awake and shortly before Sophie had ordered 4 drunk men to scatter by threatening to call the cops. As a result, the streets were empty. Sophie came into the balcony a little while later, following her cat, when she saw the giant in street, and he saw her. Sophie runs inside into her dorm, but the Giant reaches into the dorm and carries Sophie out in his hands.The giant takes Sophie into Giant Country, and to his home. Sophie believes that the Giant is going to eat her, but the giant clarifies that he does not eat humans, but his fellow giants do.
There, the elderly Giant explains that Sophie must stay with him for the rest of her life because she saw him and must not be allowed to reveal the existence of giants. The giant says that Sophie would have revealed his existence to humans, who would have hunted him down and locked him up in a zoo. Sophie promises not to tell anyone, but the Giant refuses to relent.
The giant learns that Sophie is an orphan. She also says that Mrs Clonkers (Marilyn Norry) the head of the orphanage punishes kids by locking them in a dark cellar with rats for company.The giant says that he captures dreams. After learning that she has insomnia and that she doesn't believe he can control dreams, he manages to read her to sleep and gives her a nightmare (The giant keeps the dreams and the nightmares in bottles, neatly arranged on his shelf) about failing to escape and being eaten by another giant.The giant drinks a green fizzy liquid called Frobscottel, but the fizz in the drink goes down instead of up. The drink makes the giant fart with so much power that he gets lifted up in the air.
When Sophie awakes, the Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement), the infantile leader of the man-eating giants, enters the older giant's home and smells Sophie. Sophie hides in the cut vegetable in the giant's kitchen, which is picked up by the Fleshlumpeater. The Fleshlumpeater nearly devours Sophie before exiting. Fleshlumpeater calls the giant a "runt" and doesn't respect him too much.
The giant takes Sophie deeper inside his cabin, where he stores the captured dreams and nightmares. He gives Sophie a bath (to wash off the vegetables) and dries her off in front of the stove. The giant makes a room for Sophie in a tree cavern and gives her a book that he had brought back with him from the city.The giant gives Sophie some replacement clothes, as hers are ruined, and Sophie convinces him to take her to Dream Country to catch dreams together. Sophie says that if she is left behind, she is likely to be eaten up by the other giants.
As they leave, they cross a field full of giants who are sleeping during the day (as they all wake up during the night). They accidentally wake up the Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) who awakens the other man-eating giants. They torment and bully the friendly giant. As the pair escape during a thunderstorm which drives the man-eating giants into the cave, the Fleshlumpeater and the Bloodbottler find Sophie's blanket under Fleshlumpeater's feet (which she had dropped while her giant was being tossed around by the other giants) and plan to find her. Climbing up the mountain, Sophie tells the giant that he shouldn't allow the other giants to bully him.
The pair arrives in Dream Country (by crossing the boundary between the 2 worlds at the magical lake. You jump into the lake to go from one world to the other) and catch a dream each. While there, the giant reveals that his only other alias (other than "runt" which the other giants call him) is "the Big Friendly Giant" and Sophie decides to call him "BFG".The BFG catches a bad dream that indicates that bad things are going to happen to BFG and he would have no forgiveness. The BFG tells Sophie that he is as old as the Earth and has been around forever.
The two then head to London to spread good dreams to sleeping children. As they do so, Sophie realizes that she has lost her blanket. The BFG realizes that the other man-eating giants know about her, and she wakes up outside the orphanage. BFG explains that the last human child he took and raised was discovered and eaten by Fleshlumpeater's group. BFG leaves Sophie, but the same night she throws herself out of her window in the hope he will appear again to catch her, and he does.
When they return to the BFG's home, the other giants were already waiting for him. They barge in and upend the place looking for Sophie, destroying much of the BFG's hard work in the form of the dreams and the nightmares he had collected in jars. Sophie evades detection and the enraged BFG finally stands up to them and drives them off with a hot fire iron.
While hidden, Sophie finds the home of the last human to live with the BFG (it was another cavern inside a tree in BFG's dream storage area) before becoming a victim of Fleshlumpeater's group. She leaves his jacket on his bed and finds a portrait of Queen Victoria among his belongings. From this she devises a plan to forge a nightmare and give it to Elizabeth II (Penelope Wilton), the Queen of the United Kingdom.BFG and Sophie take a captured nightmare and add additional story-lines to it to customize it specifically for the Queen.The nightmare consists of all the 9 giants (except the BFG) are in England and are eating the children, the British Army fighting the giants, and Sophie appearing on her windowsill.
They head to Buckingham Palace and bypass the security to reach the Queen's bedchambers from her window. BFG uses a large flute like device to "blow" the nightmare into the Queen. Upon waking from her nightmare, the Queen and her maid Mary (Rebecca Hall) find Sophie on the windowsill as in the nightmare with the BFG outside in the palace grounds. BFG was initially reluctant to reveal himself to more humans, but gentle encouragement from Sophie helps him overcome his hesitation as he realizes that they need the Queen's help.
Sophie and the BFG inform the Queen, Mary, and Mr. Tibbs (Rafe Spall) that the child-eating beasts in her dream are indeed real and must be stopped at all costs before they cause any more harm to her subjects. Mary believes Sophie as she had recently seen a newspaper article which talked about children been literally "plucked" out of their beds at night.They have large breakfast they all enjoy. BFG is carefully brought into the palace, and made to sit on a large table, and a stool set upon a piano for his breakfast. He is given a sword to use as a knife for his food which is enough to feed 100 men. BFG loves the food, but not so much the coffee. BFG presents a bottle of Frobscottel to the Queen and her staff and soon, the entire palace is farting.The Queen soon dispatches soldiers to Giant Country. She says that the giants will strike again in 10 hours, and she intends to stop them.
The BFG plans to give the man-eating giants the nightmare Sophie caught the night before, so they will be more compliant once caught. They are almost all immediately consumed by guilt, but the Fleshlumpeater awakens and intercepts the nightmare before it can affect him. Despite this, the British army's helicopters effortlessly ensnare and capture him and the other giants. They are lifted away onto an isolated uncharted island somewhere in the world where numerous crates of Snozzcumber seeds (which is a rather nasty and stinky vegetable which is all that BFG had to eat) are left with them, much to their fury (as they are all meat eaters and hate vegetables).
In the aftermath, Sophie begins living in the Queen's palace with Mary while the BFG returns to Giant Country to resume giving dreams to people and begins growing a wide variety of vegetables inspired by his time in England. The film ends with Sophie narrating that whenever she feels lonely, which is less often than before, she talks to him. He can still hear her. Leaning out of her window, she says "Good Morning, BFG". At his writing desk, the BFG hears her words and smiles.
