Animal Farm 1999  TV, 91 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: John Stephenson
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Scofield, Peter Ustinov, Alan Stanford, Caroline Gray, Gail Fitzpatrick, Jimmy Keogh, Jer O'Leary
George Orwell's allegory of Communist Russia is told in this film about the animals on Manor Farm. Led by the pig, Old Major (voice of Peter Ustinov), the animals stage a revolution only to find out that one very ambitious pig, Napoleon (voice of Patrick Stewart), deems himself "more equal than others" and turns their dreamed-of Utopia into a world they had not envisioned.
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How Harry Became a Tree 2001 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
aka: Bitter Harvest
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Cast: Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon, Pat Laffan, Gail Fitzpatrick, Mairead Ni Conghaile, Catriona Canavan
Reset in 1924, rural Ireland, this Chinese story involves the efforts of cranky farmer Harry (Colm Meaney) to stir up animosities among his fellow villagers in order to increase his own importance.
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| 1. Animal Farm (1999)
2. How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
aka: Bitter Harvest
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