Watership Down (1999)★ 7.6/10
- Adventure
- Animation
- Family
- Fantasy
- Thriller
Directed by: Troy Sullivan, Stefan Leblanc
Written by: Richard Adams, Anna Bourque, Peter Colley, Mary Crawford, David Finley
The adventures of a warren of rabbits as they struggle to develop their new home and protect it from the various threats they face.
- Original title
- Watership Down
- Storyline
- Heeding the warning of a vision of their old home's destruction, a warren of rabbits led by Hazel (Ian Shaw), his brother Fiver (Andrew Falvey) the visionary, the ever inventive doe, Blackberry (Sue Elliott-Nichols), and Bigwig (Stephen Mangan), a former member of their old home's military class, go in search of a new home. With the help of new found friends like Kehaar (Rik Mayall) the gull and Hannah (Jane Horrocks) the mouse, Fiver's vision leads them to a home called Watership Down. Now, Hazel and his friends must establish their warren and protect it from the threats they face which include humans, predators, and especially the menace of a tyrannically militaristic warren led by the merciless General Woundwart (Sir John Hurt and Nigel Pegram).
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,189
- Companies
- Alltime Entertainment, Canal Famille, Le, Decode Entertainment, Nepenthe Productions, YTV, ITV - Independent Television, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, CT1, DHX Media, GoodTimes Home Video, Goodtimes Entertainment, Nomad Distribution, Super RTL, TVN, TVP1, Umbrella Entertainment, Universal Pictures Video, WildBrain
- Release dates
- JP August 13, 1999
- GB September 28, 1999
- DE September 10, 2000
- PL March 5, 2001
- NL April 14, 2001