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1995 · family · comedy · drama

Babe (1995)

Directed by Chris Noonan1h 32m1995

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

Our read: Babe (1995) (1995) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive family · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

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Cosy, kinetic, gentle family / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.

ElsewhereIMDb6.9141kRT98%Metacritic83TMDB6.33k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
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How Babe feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want gentle farmyard fable that treats kindness as real heroism.”

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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