Babe

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Friday 2nd September 2011
Freedom Gardens
4.45pm, 89 mins, cert U
Family favorite Babe about a small pig with big adventures.

This classic family film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and screenplay. Babe is the tale of a heroic little pig who’s been taken in by the friendly farmer Hoggett (Oscar nominee James Cromwell), who senses that he and the pig share ‘a common destiny’. Adopted by the resident Border collie and raised as a puppy, befriended by Ferdinand the duck (who thinks he’s a cockerel), and saves the day as a champion ‘sheep-pig’. With a supporting cast of talking barnyard animals and a chorus of singing mice, this frequently hilarious, visually imaginative movie has already taken its place as a family classic with timeless appeal.