Chicken Run

17 Ratings: 3.6

The 2000 stop motion animated film, from director Nick Park, about the secret lives of chickens on an English farm.

Facing imminent death while laying eggs at Tweedy's English farm, a group of chickens, led by the determined Ginger (Julia Sawahla, BBC-TV's ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS), plan to escape their prisonlike coop. The situation goes from bad to worse when the sinister … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Comedy Movies, Action Movies, Animated Movies, British Comedy, Stop Motion Animation, see all

Cast: Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Benjamin Whitrow, Imelda Staunton, Julia Sawalha, see all

Genre: Comedy, Action, Animation, Adventure

Release Date: 2000, June 21, 2000

MPAA Rating: G

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Quick Tip by dogsbody. March 18, 2010

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Under-appreciated gem from Nick Park (Wallace & Gromit). Beautifully made and very funny.

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review by Count_Orlok_22. December 18, 2008

posted in The British Comedy Connosieurs

Chickens on the Run

After their huge success with Creature Comforts and the Wallace & Gromit shorts, Nick Park and Peter Lord ventured out into the world of full-length features. Using the same style of animation that they'd established with W&G, they decided to create a spoof of old wartime prison escape films. The result is the featherbrained caper known as Chicken Run. Life on the Tweedys' farm was never easy. Mrs. Tweedy was a cruel woman and her husband … more

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