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Featuring unforgettable characters, incredible animation and all-star voice talent, Chicken Run is an instant classic from the Academy Award®-winning creatures of Wallace & Gromit! While the chickens on evil Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Gingers is hatching plans to fly the coop – for good! The only problem is chickens can't fly…or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash-lands into the coo. It's hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o' cluck, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom! Bonus Content: Includes a digital copy of Chicken Run (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) Poultry in Motion: The Making of Chicken Run The Hatching of Chicken Run Feature Commentary with Peter Lord & Nick Park

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This moving film from Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy) is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). In it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extra­ordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father’s desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, LIFE IS SWEET is captivating, and it was Leigh’s first international sensation.