Chicken Run / James And The Giant Peach

Starring: Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson Dvd Release: 21st March, 2005 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Chicken Run is a stop motion film made by the Aardman Animation studios, which had its theatrical release in 2000. Chicken Run is the humorous story of a band of chickens who seek escape from their coop before their evil owners, the Tweedys, make them all into chicken pies. The film is an homage to the World War II prison films of the 1950s & 1960s, but it alludes wittily to numerous other films, including Braveheart, the Indiana Jones films & Star Trek. The star roles in the movie are those of Ginger, a hen who has absolute faith that the chickens can fly out of the coop if only they train hard enough & Rocky, a rooster who Ginger believes can fly, but who keeps the secret of his flightlessness from her for much of the film. Mrs. Tweedy is the nefarious, grasping farm wife whose exasperation at low profits from egg sales leads her to reinvent her farm as a chicken-pie factory. The film proved a success with both children & adults & showed that Peter Lord & Nick Park had the ability to handle the technical & writing challenges posed by a feature film. Posters Of Chicken Run

Joanna Lumley is a British actress & former model who is best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine -sniffing & other drug -taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. Tall, leggy, thin & blonde, she began her acting career as a Bond girl in On Her Majestys Secret Service. a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers. She has specialised in playing upper-class parts & her distinctive plummy voice has reinforced this. However, following her rise to fame, she revealed that she had been an unmarried mother during the 1960s when it was socially unacceptable. The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer, Jeremy Lloyd. Lumley was awarded an OBE in 1995. Posters Of James And The Giant Peach

Mel Gibson is an American -born Australian -reared actor, director & producer best known for either acting in Mad Max movie series, the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart & directing The Passion of the Christ. He was born Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson in Peekskill, New York, the sixth child of eleven born to Hutton Gibson & Ann. Mel was born with a rare physical anomaly called Horseshoe kidney. His two kidneys are fused at the base into a U shape. This fusion anomaly occurs in about one of every 400 people. Although he maintained his United States citizenship, he was raised in Australia from the age of twelve. Following a victory on the TV game show Jeopardy!, Gibsons father, Hutton, moved his family to Australia in 1968 in protest of the Vietnam War & because he believed that changes in American society were immoral. Some people have attacked Hutton Gibson for religious views that he says are based on traditional Catholicism & on his political opinions. Posters Of Mel Gibson

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British actress Miranda Richardson was born on 3 March 1958, in Southport, Lancashire, the second daughter of William & Marian Richardson. Born to a middle-class family, Richardson showed a desire to step into the character she was playing, indicating that she would go on to be thought of as one of Britains best, if sorely underrated, actresses. After deciding not to become a vet because of her squeamishness, the young Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1981, she made her stage debut in Moving at the Queens Theatre in London. Three years later, she made her big screen debut as platinum blonde nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom in Mike Newell s critically acclaimed biographical drama, Dance with a Stranger. Her performance in that film won her much praise & within a year, she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his Second World War drama, Empire of the Sun. Posters Of Miranda Richardson

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