 Chicken Run 2000  G, 85 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Ferguson, Imelda Staunton, Benjamin Whitrow, Tony Haygarth, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels
Kids as well as adults will enjoy this romp through a Yorkshire, England, chicken farm in which the romantic duo–Rocky the Rooster (Mel Gibson) and Ginger (Julia Sawalha)–plot a great escape when the farm's evil owners (Miranda Richardson and Tony Haygarth) decide to turn from egg farming to the chicken pot pie trade. A very good spoof on "The Great Escape" that is bound to be a claymation classic.
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Martin Chuzzlewit 1994  TV, 330 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedr James
Cast: Keith Allen, David Bradley, Emma Chambers, Julian Fellowes, Paul Francis, John Mills, Pete Postlethwaite, Julia Sawalha, Paul Scofield, Maggie Steed, Tom Wilkinson, Peter Wingfield
This BBC miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1844 story is a social comedy about an English family that sent its youngest son to America to gain business sense. He succeeds and years later returns home as an old man whose relatives now scheme to inherit his property.
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 Pride and Prejudice 1995 TV, 280 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Simon Langton
Cast: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, Susannah Harker, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Adrian Lukis, Julia Sawalha, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, Emilia Fox, Christopher Benjamin, Anthony Calf
This excellent TV miniseries does justice to Jane Austen's classic tale of the relationships of two people caught in the 19th-century class system when headstrong Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) meets wealthy Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth). Darcy courts Elizabeth, and problems ensue over the issues of manners and love when the couple learns that they must deal with their different perspectives on life if they are to live their lives together.
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The Wind in the Willows 1996  PG, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
aka: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Director: Terry Jones
Cast: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Bernard Hill, Michael Palin, Nigel Planer, Julia Sawalha, Victoria Wood
Mole's (Steve Coogan) home is being destroyed after wealthy landowner Toad (Terry Jones) decides to convert the "wild wood" into a dog-food factory. Mole's friends–Rat (Eric Idle) and Badger (Antony Sher)–come to Mole's aid. But it is difficult to succeed against powerful odds.
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| 1. Chicken Run (2000)
2. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
3. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
4. The Wind in the Willows (1996)
aka: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
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