Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animation British film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films.
The Tweedys run a failing chicken farm in Yorkshire, England, the chickens producing fewer eggs than previously, and Mrs. Tweedy kills the chickens that fail to make their quota. Mrs. Tweedy decides to change the farm's production, moving into the making of chicken pies instead of se...
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Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animation British film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films.
The Tweedys run a failing chicken farm in Yorkshire, England, the chickens producing fewer eggs than previously, and Mrs. Tweedy kills the chickens that fail to make their quota. Mrs. Tweedy decides to change the farm's production, moving into the making of chicken pies instead of selling eggs. The chickens themselves live in a World War II POW-like fenced area, and one chicken, Ginger, continues to try to escape the coop with the help of the other chickens and a pair of rats ("scroungers", common in prison films) that help get them contraband for numerous plans, but always ends up getting caught and put into solitary confinement by Mr. Tweedy who locks her in the coal shed. Ginger realizes that the only way to escape for good is to fly over the fence, something that chickens cannot do.
One day, Ginger witnesses an...
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