Cinema
Babe
Chris Noonan · 1995
Synopsis
Babe, an orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by the farmer Arthur Hoggett, who takes him to his farm. A sheepdog, Fly, raises him with her puppies. He becomes friends with Ferdinand, a duck who crows like a rooster to make himself useful, raises the alarm one day against sheep thieves, and Hoggett lets him try to round up the flock, encouraged by an old ewe, Maa. Mice sing the interludes of the story.
Context
The film adapts a children's book by the Englishman Dick King-Smith, published in 1983. The screenplay was written by the director with the producer George Miller. Filming took place in 1994 at Robertson, in New South Wales, with trained animals and animatronic creatures from Jim Henson's workshop; Roscoe Lee Browne is the narrator. On a budget of 30 million dollars, the film earned more than 240 million worldwide.
Who it is for
A family film in English, an hour and a half long, in which real animals talk and mice sing.
Prizes and reception
Seven Oscar nominations (six according to Australian Cinema), and the Oscar for visual effects.
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