Chicken Run
Chicken Run is a 2000 animated adventure comedy film directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park and written by Karey Kirkpatrick from an original story by Lord and Park. Produced by Pathé and Aardman Features in partnership with DreamWorks Animation, it is Aardman's first feature-length film. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, the plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into chicken pies.
Plot
In the countryside of Yorkshire, a flock of chickens live on an egg farm structured like a prisoner-of-war camp. The farm is run by the cruel Mrs Tweedy and her submissive husband, Mr Tweedy, who kill and eat any chicken that is no longer able to lay eggs. Led by the rebellious Ginger, the chickens constantly devise new ways to try to escape but are always caught. Mr Tweedy suspects the chickens are organised and plotting resistance, but his wife dismisses his theories while being frustrated with making minuscule profits.
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author | John O'Farrell Karey Kirkpatrick Mark Burton Nick Park |
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award | Genesis Award |
contentLocation | England |
director | Nick Park Peter Lord |
editor | Mark Solomon |
events | animal husbandry domestication escape |
genre | adventure animation comedy |
keywords | advertise air force bird sanctuary buy chicken chicken or egg chicken or the egg chicken pie climb crush cut dance party egg farm even fall fly gravy help how to knock out machine mushroom cloud new home pie machine pot pie poultry farming rat royal air force set up train yorkshire |
musicBy | Harry Gregson-Williams John Powell |
nomination | European Film Award for Best Film |
producer | David Sproxton Nick Park Peter Lord |
publisher | DreamWorks Pictures Pathé Distribution and StudioCanal |
theme | animated children's children's adventure children's comedy prison stop-motion animated |