Chicken Run (2000)

Directed by

Peter Lord, Nick Park

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, family film, children's film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

G

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5,447 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of chickens on an egg farm plot to escape after their owners decide to turn them into pies. They pin their hopes on a rooster from America who claims he can help them fly away.

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What happens

Chicken Run is a 2000 stop motion animated adventure comedy film directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park and written by Karey Kirkpatrick from an original story by Lord and Park, partly inspired by the 1963 film The Great Escape. Produced by Aardman Features in partnership with Pathé and 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 film centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens in an egg farm 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. Chicken Run was released in the United States on 23 June 2000 and in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2000. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $228 million and becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history. At the time, this film was DreamWorks Animation's most successful release, but this was overtaken by Shrek the following year. A sequel, titled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, was released on Netflix on 15 December 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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