As we celebrate its 20th anniversary and eager anticipate the future sequel, rewind with us to the year 2000 as we revisit Aardman’s first feature film. It ain’t no chick flick! Written, produced, and directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park, with a screenplay written by Karey Kirkpatrick, Chicken Run is a stop motion animated comedy film about chickens who attempt a great escape. These chickens are doomed to a life of egg-laying on a Yorkshire chicken farm run by the Tweedys (Miranda Richardson and Tony Haygath) who are rebranding from a chicken egg business to a chicken pie business. When a flamboyant American rooster named Rocky (Mel Gibson) arrives on the scene, the hens, led by the innovative Ginger (Julia Sawalha), hope he can teach them to fly to freedom. With the Tweedy’s new chicken pie making machine installed, their need to escape becomes urgent and the flock are forced to get creative to finally fly the coop and escape to greener pastures.