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Chicken Run

Directed by Nick Park, Peter Lord

United States • 2000 • 84 mins. • In English

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The feature debut from the Academy Award-winning team behind the much-loved Wallace and Gromit shorts is a charming adventure set on a Yorkshire chicken farm. In the prison-like conditions, any chicken who doesn’t make her egg quota can meet a “fowl” fate. Rocky, a Rhode Island Red American rooster who can sort of fly, and Ginger, a British hen, are determined to break out from the sinister farm before they can be turned into chicken pot pies. How will their great escape succeed?

Genres: Stop-Motion Animation

Appears in: Animated Worlds: Stop Motion Classics

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