Taglines: A little pig goes a long way.
Babe, an orphaned piglet, is chosen for a “guess the weight” contest at a county fair. The winning farmer, Arthur Hoggett, brings him home and allows him to stay with a Border Collie named Fly, her mate Rex and their puppies, in the barn. A duck named Ferdinand, who poses as a rooster to spare himself from being eaten, persuades Babe to help him destroy the alarm clock that threatens his mission.
Despite succeeding in this, they wake Duchess, the Hoggetts’ cat, and in the confusion accidentally destroy the living room. Rex sternly instructs Babe to stay away from Ferdinand (now a fugitive) and the house. Sometime later, when Fly’s puppies are put up for sale, Babe asks if he can call her “Mom”.
Christmas brings a visit from the Hoggetts’ relatives. Babe is almost chosen for Christmas dinner but a duck is picked instead after Hoggett remarks to his wife Esme that Babe may bring a prize for ham at the next county fair. On Christmas Day, Babe justifies his existence by alerting Hoggett to sheep rustlers stealing sheep from one of the fields. The next day, Hoggett sees Babe sort the hens, separating the brown from the white ones.
Impressed, he takes him to the fields and allows him to try and herd the sheep. Encouraged by an elder ewe named Maa, the sheep cooperate, but Rex sees Babe’s actions as an insult to sheepdogs and confronts Fly in a vicious fight for encouraging Babe. He injures her leg and accidentally bites Hoggett’s hand when he tries to intervene. Rex is then chained to the dog house, muzzled and sedated, leaving the sheep herding job to Babe.
Babe is a 1995 Australian-American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller, and written by both. It is an adaptation of Dick King-Smith’s 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the US, which tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog.
The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies. After seven years of development, Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia.[5] The talking-animal visual effects were done by Rhythm & Hues Studios and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
The film was a box office success and grossed $36,776,544 at the box office in Australia. It has received considerable acclaim from critics: it was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning Best Visual Effects. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.<
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Babe (1995)
Directed by: Chris Noonan
Starring: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Danny Mann, Evelyn Krape, Charles Bartlett, James Cromwell
Screenplay by: George Miller, Chris Noonan
Production Design by: Roger Ford
Cinematography by: Andrew Lesnie
Film Editing by: Marcus D’Arcy, Jay Friedkin
Costume Design by: Roger Ford
Set Decoration by: Kerrie Brown
Art Direction by: Colin Gibson
Music by: Nigel Westlake
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: August 4, 1995
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