Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet named Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he can herd sheep too. But will the other farm animals, including Fly’s jealous husband, Rex, accept a pig who doesn’t conform to the farm’s social hierarchy?
“…a comedy of animal manners that is much funnier and much cannier than any recent movie about human relationships: a lovely, stubbornly idiosyncratic fable of aspiration and survival.” — Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
directed by
Chris Noonan
Chris Noonan
written by
Dick King-Smith, George Miller, Chris Noonan
Dick King-Smith, George Miller, Chris Noonan
with
James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh
James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh
country
Australia, United States
Australia, United States
production company
Universal Pictures, Kennedy Miller Productions
Universal Pictures, Kennedy Miller Productions