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Babe (1995)
Director: Chris Noonan
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Degree of difficulty apart - and difficulty involved making an entire farmyard of real animals talk - the merits of Babe are those of Dick King-Smith's classic, The Sheep-Pig. Piglet Babe beats the slaughterhouse and is adopted by a sheepdog who coaches him in the art of rounding up sheep. Taciturn farmer Hoggett (Cromwell) wonderingly goes along with this apprenticeship, and is gratified when Babe wins the rosette at the trials. Babe's secret is politeness which gets better results than barking, and raises lots of laughs. Charming, eccentric and very amusing.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Chris Noonan
Producer: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller
Cast: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Zoe Burton, Miriam Margoyles, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Paul Goddard, Christine Cavanaugh full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 94 mins
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