Babe: Pig in the City is first an exploration of the precariousness of an existence based solely on subsistence agriculture. Hoggett’s health is literally the farm’s solvency.

James Cromwell is bringing back his Farmer Hoggett persona from Babe in a new PETA video. In early April, the actor, 83, helped save a piglet that fell off a slaughterhouse truck and named the ...

Maybe The Incredibles doesn’t in 2004. Maybe George Miller’s gonzo Babe: Pig in the City gets taken a lot more seriously. In short, we’d all be a lot better off. Stream Babe on Hulu ...

In 1995’s Babe, the actor played a farmer who decides not to slaughter a nice little pig who was improbably good at herding sheep. Jump nearly 30 years and he’s done that for real.

Consider the staying power of this pair of porcine contenders. Porky Pig, of “Th-th-th-that’s All Folks” fame, made his movie debut in 1935.

Both “Babe” films were written by “Mad Max” director George Miller, who helmed “Pig in the City” himself. The 1995 “Babe” was directed by Chris Noonan and earned seven Academy ...

It’s not exactly kid-friendly material, but to be fair, Babe: Pig in the City isn’t a kid-friendly movie. I don’t know who it’s for, actually.

Babe: Pig in the City forces its likely young viewers to engage with these concepts and more. The film touches, to various degrees, on death, self-loathing, abandonment, distrust, and even suicide.

Directed by Chris Noonan and starring James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski as farmers Mr and Mrs Hoggart, Babe made over US$250 million (A$351 million) at the international box office. It spawned a ...

BABE THE SHEEP PIG, based on the 1983 children's book penned by Dick King-Smith, tells the story of a piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a county fair in a guess the weight game.

"Warner Bros. and the 'Looney Tunes' has always been like the anti-everything else cartoon. They've always broken the fourth wall. They've probably been one of the first animated forms to take on pop ...