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.

As sublime a tearjerker as it was, 1998's Babe: Pig in the City didn't bring home the box-office bacon that its predecessor did. But, according to E.G. Daily — the voice of the porcine ...

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.

Babe will have a new life at the sanctuary, where he will join other pigs, as well as alpacas, chickens, cows, and more on the nearly 100-acre property.

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.

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.

If the 1995 movie “Babe” and its 1998 sequel, “Babe: Pig in the City,” served up an easy-to-digest picture of squeaky clean porcine precociousness, two new movies give us less palatable ...

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.