Chicken Run

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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. 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 oppressive egg farm who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope for escape. Lord and Park conceived of Chicken Run in 1995, inspired by prison escape films like 1963's The Great Escape. Pathé agreed to finance the film in 1996 and DreamWorks officially came on board in 1997, beating out other interested Hollywood studios and securing distribution in most countries. DreamWorks co-chairman Jeffrey...

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