Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
From director Wes Anderson comes his adaptation of beloved children's author Roald Dahl's novel about a fox battling angry farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this leads the farmers to stakeout the treehouse. The farmers try to dig the Fox family out, but they dig even faster. Mr. Fox organizes a tunneling project to burrow under all three farms and steal all the chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
Primary Title
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
Date Broadcast
- Saturday 1 December 2012
Release Year
- 2009
Start Time
- 18 : 30
Finish Time
- 20 : 20
Duration
- 110:00
Channel
- FOUR
Programme Description
- From director Wes Anderson comes his adaptation of beloved children's author Roald Dahl's novel about a fox battling angry farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this leads the farmers to stakeout the treehouse. The farmers try to dig the Fox family out, but they dig even faster. Mr. Fox organizes a tunneling project to burrow under all three farms and steal all the chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
Classification
- G
Owning Collection
- Television Vault
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Fantasy films
- Animated films--United States.
- Foxes--Behavior--Drama
- Animal burrowing--Drama
- Fathers and sons--Drama
Genres
- Adventure
- Animation
- Comedy
Contributors
- Wes Anderson (Director)
- Roald Dahl (Writer)
- Wes Anderson (Writer)
- George Clooney (Voice)
- Meryl Streep (Voice)
- Bill Murray (Voice)
- Noah Baumbach (Writer)
- Jason Schwartzman (Voice)
- Willem Dafoe (Voice)
- Michael Gambon (Voice)
- Owen Wilson (Voice)
- Allison Abbate (Producer)
- Wes Anderson (Producer)
- Jeremy Dawson (Producer)
- Scott Rudin (Producer)
- Alexandre Desplat (Composer)
- Twentieth Century Fox (Production Unit)
- Indian Paintbrush (Production Unit)
- Regency Enterprises (Production Unit)
- American Empirical Pictures (Production Unit)
- Twentieth Century Fox Animation (Production Unit)
- 99204543614002091 (MMSID)
Subjects
- Fantasy films
- Animated films--United States.
- Foxes--Behavior--Drama
- Animal burrowing--Drama
- Fathers and sons--Drama