Underplayed Gems

Watership Down (1978)

Watership Down poster
Directed by
John Hubley, Martin Rosen
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, adventure film, children's film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 713 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of rabbits flee their warren after one has a vision of destruction. They travel across the English countryside to find a new home, facing predators and other dangers along the way.

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What happens

Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure drama film, written, produced, and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams. It features the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne, Roy Kinnear, and Zero Mostel in his final film role. This feature length animation was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions and distributed by Cinema International Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was released on 19 October 1978 and was an immediate success, becoming the sixth-most popular film of 1979 at the UK box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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