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Babe

1995 · TMDB 6.3

Directed by Chris Noonan

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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A piglet won at a country fair decides he would rather herd sheep than be eaten, and a stern farmer reluctantly lets him try. Chris Noonan balances talking animals with real farmyard cruelty, and the result is far stranger than its reputation suggests.

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