Chicken Run

Chicken Run is a 2000 stopmotion animated comedy film produced by the British studio Aardman Animations. As the studios first featurelength film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. It was cofinanced by DreamWorks Pictures and Path, with the former distributing the film worldwide except for Europe, where it was handled by Path. The plot centers on a band of chickens who see a smoothtalking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pot pies. The film features the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Tony Haygarth and Miranda Richardson. Chicken Run received positive reviews from critics, and grossed over 224 million, becoming the highestgrossing stop motion animated film ever.

One chicken, Ginger, has long had visions of escaping with the help of her hen friends Babs, Bunty, and Mac, and two blackmarketer rats, Nick and Fetcher, who help to acquire contraband from the Tweedys to aid Gingers plans. However, she is always caught and put into solitary confinement for some time. During one such escapade, she learns of Mrs. Tweedys plan, and hastens her attempts to flee the camp. While thinking of a new plan, Ginger witnesses a Rhode Island Red rooster fly over the fence, and crash into one of the coops, breaking his wing. Ginger and the other chickens help to hide him from the Tweedys and care for his wing, learning that his name is Rocky. Ginger is particularly interested in Rockys ability to fly, and begs him to help train her and the other chickens to do the same. Rocky is coy, but proceeds to try to help train the chickens, unable to fully demonstrate due to his broken wing.Amid the training, Rocky holds a large party to help relieve the stress, where it is revealed his wing is healed, and Ginger insists he show them how to fly the next day. The pie making machine finally arrives and after some time, Mr. Tweedy completes the assembly and immediately grabs Ginger for a test run. Rocky is able to save Ginger and helps to damage the machine, giving the chickens only a short time to plan to escape while Mr. Tweedy repairs it. When morning arrives, Ginger finds Rocky has fled, leaving behind a part of a poster that shows him to be a stunt rooster, shot out of a cannon from a nearby American circus, and unable to fly by himself. Ginger and the other chickens are depressed. Fowler the rooster tries to cheer the hens up by telling tales from his days as an RAF mascot, leading Ginger to the idea of creating an airplane to flee the Tweedys. All the chickens, with help from the rats, secretly assemble the required parts for the plane from their coops while racing against Mr. Tweedys repairs. Meanwhile, Rocky, traveling the countryside, sees a billb

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