Babe is a 1995 Australian film that tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheep dog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies. The film is based on the book The Sheep-Pig (known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the U.S.) by Dick King-Smith, and later spawned a sequel called Babe: Pig in the City.
Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia. The talking animal visual effect...
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Babe is a 1995 Australian film that tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheep dog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies. The film is based on the book The Sheep-Pig (known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the U.S.) by Dick King-Smith, and later spawned a sequel called Babe: Pig in the City.
Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia. The talking animal visual effects were done by Rhythm and Hues Studios. Although the setting and style of the film is distinctly British/Australasian pastoral, many of the human speaking parts were over-dubbed from Australian to American accents for popular acceptance in the American film market.
After a pig's mother is taken away to be slaughtered by humans (or, as the film's pigs think, to a "Pig Paradise"), Babe is picked out for a "guess the weight" booth at a county fair. Farmer Hoggett guesses the correct weight and wins the pig. Babe is brought to the farm and is...
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