Ginger is one of the chicken at the Tweety Egg Farm, who is capable of escaping (and desperately wants to) but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling failed and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out to the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom – in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him. In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape. Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chicken, irritating Ginger “Doll-Face” and organizer Officer Fowler, formerly of the Royal Air Force, in the process. Meanwhile, the Tweetys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies out of, intending to cook every last one of them.

Chicken Run (2000)
  • Rating: (67,538 votes)
  • Taglines:This Ain't No Chick Flick! » Escape or Die Frying »
  • Runtime:84 minutes
  • Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park
  • Country:UK
  • Actors:
    Fetcher (voice)
    Phil Daniels
    Mac (voice)
    Lynn Ferguson
    Rocky (voice)
    Mel Gibson
    Mr. Tweedy (voice)
    Tony Haygarth
    Babs (voice)
    Jane Horrocks
    Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
    Miranda Richardson
    Ginger (voice)
    Julia Sawalha
    Nick (voice)
    Timothy Spall
    Bunty (voice)
    Imelda Staunton
    Fowler (voice)
    Benjamin Whitrow
  • Genres:Animation, Family, Comedy
  • Producers:
    Jacky Chrisp
    assistant producer  
    Jake Eberts
    executive producer  
    Jeffrey Katzenberg
    executive producer  
    Peter Lord
    producer  
    Nick Park
    producer  
    Michael Rose
    executive producer  
    Carla Shelley
    line producer  
    David Sproxton
    producer  
    Lenny Young
    associate producer  
  • Plots: Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Ms. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom. Written by Cory Booth <WHMacy@yahoo.com>
Chicken Run
  • User's comment:Animation at its best, with outstanding characters and a clever story. ***1/2 (out of four) by Blake French (film321@altavista.com)

    CHICKEN RUN / (2000) ***1/2 (out of four)

    "Chicken Run," DreamWorks Picture's newest animation festival, is an old-fashioned fairy tale with more heart and truth than most movies can even imagine about containing. The film's animated style contains state-of-the-art clay-animation techniques, which make it worth the trip to the multiplex just for feasting your eyes on such brilliant special effects. Directors Peter Lord and Nick Park, with co-writer Karey Kirkpatrick, give the characters depth, reason, and dimension-even if the main star is a feathered farm animal that converges with his companions about political matters.

    "Chicken Run" details the miserable lives of a clan of chickens being withheld within a sinister dairy farm in 1950's England. Ginger (voiced by Miranda Richardson) is the central character, who, along with her acquaintances, deeply lust for the sweet smell of freedom that lies beyond the constricting boundaries of their pens. The unhappy farm owners, the smart and devious Mrs. Tweedy and the dumb and precarious Mr. Tweedy, brutally dispose of chickens who fail to produce the amount of eggs they require.

    When a overzealous circus Rooster named Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) stumbles onto the farm one evening, the other chickens blackmail him into teaching them how to escape. This is also when the Tweetys lurch up a devilish new plan to strike it rich by purchasing a machine that will turn innocent chickens into merchandising pot pies.

    The film's plot is steady, solid, and knowing; it portrays a series of events that gradually build tension eventually inducing an exciting climax that is both conclusive and satisfying. "Chicken Run" is a precise piece of filmmaking, an inoffensive family adventure that will entertain audiences of all ages.

    Regardless of how well crafted it is or how artful the material, the movie is about chickens escaping out of their pen in order to find genuine independence. No, the stakes are not nearly high enough, and with a plot like this, it is only natural for some audiences to expect a shallow, cheap cartoon publicity stunt. However, the filmmakers make this movie feel original, fresh, suspenseful, and involving, regardless if the main characters are chickens with patriotic instincts.


  • Quotes: Ginger: So laying eggs all your life and then getting plucked, stuffed and roasted is good enough for you, is it? Babs: It's a livin'. Babs: All me life flashed before me eyes.
  • Also known as: A Fuga Das Galinhas (Brazil), A Fuga Das Galinhas (Portugal), Flykten från hönsgården (Finland - Swedish title), Flykten från hönsgården (Sweden), Pollitos en fuga (Argentina), Pollitos en fuga (Peru), Bijeg iz kokosinjca (Croatia - imdb display title), C:R-1 (USA - promotional abbreviation), Chicken Chicken Run Run (Japan - English title), Chicken Run (France), Chicken Run - Hennen rennen (Germany), Chicken Run: Evasión en la granja (Spain), Csibe futam (Hungary), Csibefutam (Hungary - imdb display title), Flugten fra hønsegården (Denmark), Flukten fra hønsegården (Norway), Galline in fuga (Italy), Hennen rennen (Germany), Kanade mäss (Estonia - imdb display title), Kananlento (Finland), Kokoske u bekstvu (Serbia - imdb display title), Mered Ha-Tarnegolim (Israel - Hebrew title), Oi kotes to 'skasan (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Pobuna u kokosinjcu (Croatia - TV title), Poulets en fuite (Canada - French title), Slepicí úlet (Czech Republic - dubbed version), Tavuklar firarda (Turkey - Turkish title), Uciekajace kurczaki (Poland),

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