Taglines: There’s nothing more determined than poultry with a plan.
Chicken Run movie storyline. Mrs. Tweedy and her oafish, but mean spirited, husband run a failing poultry farm in Yorkshire; the chickens are caged in the style of a World War II prison camp with a high fence and barbed wire, and two dogs patrol the grounds. Chickens that fail to produce enough eggs are slaughtered for food. Frustrated at the “minuscule profits” generated by the farm, Mrs. Tweedy comes up with the idea of converting their farm into the automated production of chicken pot pies.
One chicken, Ginger, has long had visions of escaping with the help of her hen friends, Babs, Bunty and Mac, and two black-marketer rats, Nick and Fetcher, who help to acquire “contraband” from the Tweedys to aid Ginger’s plans. However, she is always caught and put into solitary confinement. While thinking of a new plan, Ginger witnesses a Rhode Island Red cockerel fly over the fence and crash into one of the coops, spraining 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 Rocky’s 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. Meanwhile, Mr. Tweedy begins assembling their pie-making production line, and the chicken’s food ration is doubled to fatten them.
Amid the training, Rocky holds a large party to help relieve the stress; it is revealed his wing is healed, and Ginger insists he show them how to fly the next day. However, Mr. Tweedy completes the production line 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.
The next day, Ginger finds Rocky has fled, leaving behind a part of a poster that shows him to be a stunt cockerel, shot out of a cannon from a nearby circus and unable to fly by himself. Ginger and the other chickens are depressed. Fowler the cockerel tries to cheer the hens up by telling tales from his days as a Royal Air Force mascot, leading Ginger to the idea of creating a flying machine, called the Old Crate, 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. Tweedy’s repairs. While travelling the countryside, Rocky sees a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy’s Chicken Pies and is inspired to go back to help.
On opening weekend, the film grossed $17,506,162 for a $7,027 average from 2,491 theatres. Overall, the film placed second behind Me, Myself and Irene. In its second weekend, the film held well as it slipped only 25% to $13,192,897 for a $4,627 average from expanding to 2,851 theatres and finishing in fourth place.
The film’s widest release was 2,953 theatres, after grossing $106,834,564 domestically with an additional $118,000,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $224,834,564. Produced on a $45 million budget, the film was a huge box office hit. To date, it is the highest grossing stop motion animated movie.
Chicken Run (2000)
Directed by: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Starring: Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Imelda Staunton, Benjamin Whitrow, Lisa Kay
Screenplay by: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Production Design by: Phil Lewis
Cinematography by: Simon Jacobs, Andy MacCormack, Tristan Oliver, Frank Passingham, Paul Smith
Film Editing by: Robert Francis, Tamsin Parry, Mark Solomon
Costume Design by: Sally Taylor
art Direction by: Tim Farrington
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell
MPAA Rating: G for all audience.
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures
Gösterim Tarihi: June 23, 2000
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