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Animal Farm | |
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Based on | Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Teleplay by | Alan Janes Martyn Burke |
Directed by | John Stephenson |
Starring | Kelsey Grammer Ian Holm Julia Louis-Dreyfus Patrick Stewart Julia Ormond Paul Scofield Pete Postlethwaite Peter Ustinov |
Theme music composer | Richard Harvey |
Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Greg Smith Robert Halmi |
Cinematography | Mike Brewster |
Editor | Colin Green |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Production company | Hallmark Entertainment |
Budget | $23 million |
Original release | |
Network | TNT |
Release | 3 October 1999 |
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Animal Farm is a 1999 political comedy-drama television film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes. Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the film features an ensemble cast including Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Charles Dale, Pete Postlethwaite, Alan Stanford and Peter Ustinov. In the film, a group of anthropomorphic animals revolt successfully against their human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.