Babe by Dick King-Smith5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Rex sternly instructs Babe to stay away from Ferdinand and the house. In doing so they wake Duchess, the Hoggetts' cat, and wreck the house in the ensuing chaos. ![]() There he is taken in by Border Collie Fly, her irascible mate Rex and their puppies and befriends a duck named Ferdinand, who wakes people by crowing like a rooster every morning so he will be considered useful and be spared from being eaten.ĭismayed when the Hoggetts buy an alarm clock, Ferdinand persuades Babe to help him destroy it. Plot Īfter being used in "guess the weight" contest at a county fair, orphaned piglet Babe is brought home to the farm of the contest winner, Arthur Hoggett. A sequel, Babe: Pig in the City, was released on 25 November 1998, but failed to achieve the same success as the first film. The film is narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne and the main animal characters are played by both real animals and animatronic puppets.īabe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales in 1994 and released theatrically on 4 August 1995, going on to become a critical and commercial success, with several Academy Award nominations. It is an adaptation of Dick King-Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, which tells the story of a farm pig who wants to do the work of a sheepdog. Babe (also known as Babe the Sheep-Pig in the working title) is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller and written by both. ![]()
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