Chicken Run

Aardman’s first feature-length film, this classic claymation offers up a healthy mix of comedy and adventure.

Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) operates a chicken farm, where most of the birds have resigned themselves to a short and uneventful life of producing eggs and ending up as the main course of someone's Sunday dinner. But when Rocky (Mel Gibson), a rooster from America, arrives on the farm, things begin to change.

Rocky soon falls in love with a hen named Ginger (Julia Sawalha), who longs for a better life and a way out of the farm.

Together they devise a plan to escape to freedom, but soon find themselves racing against the clock when Mrs Tweedy decides it's time to turn the entire flock into chicken pies.