Animal Farm
- IMDb link: 0204824
- IMDb rating: 6 (6,907 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family
- Director: John Stephenson
- Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Ormond, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and others
- Release date: 3 Oct 1999
- Release year: 1999
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom, United States
- Keywords: satire comedy, farm, pig, satire, tyranny, revolution, voice over narration, rain, gunshot, told in flashback
Plot:
A direct allegory to the rise of Stalinist Russia, this movie combines George Orwell's parable with animatronics and voice characterizations by popular actors and actresses. Following a speech made by a venerable pig named Old Major (Lenin), the animals of Manor Farm form their own philosophy of Animalism (Communism), and lead a successful revolution orchestrated primarily by the pig Snowball (Trotsky), who tries to implement Old Major's ideas to the letter. Snowballs idealism does not save him when he is exiled by a more ambitious pig named Napoleon (Stalin), who seizes power over the farm, and proceeds to reshape Old Major's ideas to his own liking, and bringing the animals into a darker existence than they had ever dreamed.
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