Chicken Run comes from Nick Park and Peter Lord's Aardman ... and his domineering wife (with Miranda Richardson's voice) has a presence as cold and metallic as Miss Murdstone in David Copperfield.

Rocky, a rooster, and Ginger, a chicken, decide to escape from a chicken farm when they learn that their owner is plotting to have them killed.

Its escape evoked the plot of animated children films Chicken Run, in which Ginger, the hen's ringleader, devises a plan to escape a farm by jumping over a fence. Luke Stinson, one of the ...