Babe (film)

This article is about the 1995 film. For the 1992 film, see The Babe.

Babe
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChris Noonan
Screenplay by
Based onThe Sheep-Pig
by Dick King-Smith
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAndrew Lesnie
Edited by
Music byNigel Westlake
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • August 4, 1995 (1995-08-04) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Australia
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2]
Box office$254.1 million[3]

Babe is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller and written by both. 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. The film is narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne and the main animal characters are played by both real animals and animatronic puppets.

Babe 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. A sequel, Babe: Pig in the City, was released on 25 November 1998, but it failed to achieve the same success as the first film.[4]

  1. ^ "Babe (U)". British Board of Film Classification. August 15, 1995. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Thompson, Simon (December 18, 2020). "James Cromwell Talks 'Babe' At 25 And How He Almost Turned It Down". Forbes. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Review of Babe: Pig in the City (1998) at Decent Films