Chicken Run

'Wallace and Gromit' progenitor Nick Park's first big screen outing is an animated pastiche of 'The Great Escape'. Life on Tweedy's Chicken Farm is far from pleasant for the inmates; they are badly treated by Mr Tweedy and his domineering wife, and kept alive only as long as they keep producing eggs. Ginger the hen's (voiced by Julia Sawalha) various attempts at escape have failed due to the lethargy and downright incompetence of her fellow prisoners, but when Rocky (Mel Gibson) - the famous Flying Rooster - crash lands in the farm, she sees the chance she has been waiting for: Rocky can teach everyone how to fly, and they can stage a mass break-out! However, the braggardly Rocky is not all that he seems; can he really help Ginger and the others find freedom before Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) hatches her fowl plan to turn them all into chicken pies?

Voice: Tony Haygarth
Voice: Phil Daniels
Voice: Imelda Staunton
Voice: Mel Gibson
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cinematographer: Frank Passingham
Director Photography: Frank Passingham
Director: Peter Lord
Producer: Peter Lord
Writer: Peter Lord
Director: Nick Park
Producer: Nick Park
Writer: Nick Park
Voice: John Sharian
Voice: Lynn Ferguson
Voice: Julia Sawalha
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Music: John Powell
Producer: David Sproxton
Voice: Timothy Spall
Cinematographer: Tristan Oliver
Director Photography: Tristan Oliver
Voice: Miranda Richardson
Voice: Jane Horrocks
Writer: Karey Kirkpatrick
Voice: Benjamin Whitrow