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Chicken Run
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- 2000
- Nick Park
- 80 mins
- PG
Summary
Animated comedy adventure, with the voices of Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson and Mel Gibson. A clutch of hens, led by head chick Ginger, suffers life on a grim 1950s egg farm. When the avaricious owners decide to move into the meat-pie business, the chickens fear the worst. With the help of American rooster Rocky, the birds start to plan a prisoner-of-war-style escape.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
David Parkinson
This feathered pastiche of such PoW classics as The Great Escape and Stalag 17 is an awesome achievement by those clever film-makers at Aardman Animation. Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) is a "lone free-ranger" rooster who promises to help the hens in Mr and Mrs Tweedy's high-security egg farm find a way to freedom. The nods to classic film moments are funny and plentiful, the largely British voice cast (Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall) lends moments of humour and pathos, and the set pieces are exhilarating in their ingenuity and comic élan.
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rolenameRockyMel GibsonGingerJulia SawalhaBuntyImelda StauntonBabsJane HorrocksMrs TweedyMiranda RichardsonFetcherPhil DanielsNickTimothy SpallMacLynn FergusonMr TweedyTony HaygarthFowlerBenjamin Whitrow
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rolenameDirectorNick ParkDirectorPeter Lord
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Theatrical distributor
Pathe{acute}
Released on
2000-06-30
Languages
English
Available on
video and DVD
Formats
Colour
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