Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Practical Effects
Animatronic pigs that'll haunt your nightmares.
Acting
Pete Postlethwaite's dual voice work is chef's kiss.
Production
Jim Henson's Creature Shop doing POLITICAL HORROR.
Director
John Stephenson
Kelsey Grammer
Snowball (voice)
Ian Holm
Squealer (voice)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mollie (voice)
Julia Ormond
Jessie (voice)
Pete Postlethwaite
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
Paul Scofield
Boxer (voice)
Patrick Stewart
Napoleon (voice)
Peter Ustinov
Old Major (voice)
Alan Stanford
Farmer Pilkington
Gail Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Pilkington
Charles Dale
Moses/Pincher (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first feature film produced by Hallmark Entertainment using Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics, making it technically a Henson film about Stalinist purges.
The CIA secretly funded the 1954 animated adaptation as anti-Soviet propaganda; this 1999 version was made AFTER the Cold War ended, proving we learned absolutely nothing.
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