Animal Farm

Animal Farm (1999)

Four legs good. Two legs bad.

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.

Date of release
1999-10-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (169)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
John Stephenson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $23M
  • Based on: Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a 1999 satirical black tragicomedy film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes. A television film and live-action adaptation based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the film features an ensemble cast including Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Charles Dale, Pete Postlethwaite, Alan Stanford and Peter Ustinov. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided the film's animatronic animals.

Production

Filming began on 25 August 1998 and ended on 6 November.

Animals were built to represent the titular characters of Animal Farm at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London: four pigs (Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer), a shire horse (Boxer), two mares (Mollie and an unnamed black horse that is implied to be Clover), a Border collie (Jessie), a rottweiler (Pincher), a donkey (Benjamin), a raven (Moses), a goat (Muriel), a flock of sheep, cows, a rat, chickens, ducks and pigeons.

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