Chicken Run

Chicken Run is a 2000 clay animation film made by the Aardman Animations Studios. It tells the story of a band of chickens who seek escape from their coop before their owners, mild-mannered egg farmer Mr. Tweedy and his overbearing wife, make them all into chicken pot pies.

Directed and written by Peter Lord and Nick Park.
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Ginger

  • [To Fowler] You're always talking about back in your day- well, today is your day!
  • [to Bunty] Then there's still a chance.
  • [To the hens] Ladies, please, let's not lose our heads.
  • [To Rocky] It's funny, I've.. never actually felt grass beneath my feet..
  • Let's face it, the only way out of here is wrapped in pastry.
  • [To Rocky] If we don't see some results by tomorrow, the deal is off and you're on your own. No more hiding. The farmers will find you and it's back to the circus, flyboy!
  • We lay eggs, day in and day out, and when we can't lay anymore, they kill us.
  • There's a better place out there, somewhere beyond that hill a-and, it has wide open spaces and lots of trees... and grass. Can you imagine that? Cool, green grass.
  • [in solemn desperation] Heaven help us
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Rocky

  • FREEDOM!!!
  • [about Fowler] Hey, what's eatin' Grandpa?
  • [Ginger squawks loudly] Was your father, by any chance, a VULTURE?!
  • [telling jokes at a party] ...And the pig says to the horse: "Hey, fella! Why the long face?"
  • [Rocky and Ginger are in an oven] It's like an oven in here!
  • [To Fowler when hidden by Ginger] Give it a rest, pops!
  • [To Ginger] Nice hideout, ouch, I had more room in my egg.
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Fowler

  • Operation Cover-Up! [Is then covered with an old sock]
  • [About Rocky] I don't like the look of this one. His eyes are too close together. And he's a YANK!
  • Pushy Americans, always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!
  • Cock-a-doodle-doo! What, what. I just had a jab so get me some tissues!
  • Dissension in the ranks? Precisely what Jerry would have wanted! The old "divide and conquer"!
  • [Convinced by Ginger to attempt flying the plane] Wing Commander, T.I. Fowler- reporting for duty.
  • Keep pedalling! We're not there yet! You can't see paradise if you don't pedal!
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Bunty

  • In all my life I've never heard such a fantastic.. "load" of TRIPE!
  • [always hitting Rocky's back] Get over!
  • I knew he was a fake all along. In fact, I'm not even certain he was American.
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Babs

  • [To Nick and Fetcher] We're flying!
  • [Jumping excitedly, proud of herself for "flying"] I flew! I flew!
  • [After escaping] This is a lovely holiday. I'll be sad to go back.
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Mac

  • [To Ginger] Aye, hen, and I hate to be the voice of doom but I've been calculatin' my figures and.. I just don't think we're built for flyin'.
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Mrs. Tweedy

  • [to Mr. Tweedy] Quiet. I'm onto something.
  • It's all in your head, Mr. Tweedy. Say it!
  • [looming over Ginger with an axe] Put the ramp down!
  • [repeated line] MR. TWEEDY!
  • [to Mr. Tweedy, who is starting to talk about Ginger and the hens again] They're chickens, you dolt! Apart from you, they're the most stupid creatures on this planet! They don't plot! They don't scheme! THEY ARE NOT ORGANIZED!
  • I'm sick and tired of making miniscule profits.
  • [to Ginger] You are going to be a pie!
  • D'oh! Stupid, worthless creatures!
  • Get the chickens.
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Mr. Tweedy

  • And let that be a lesson to the lot of ya! No chicken escapes from Tweedy's farm!
  • [sees the chickens with his tools] Me tools! [the chickens all grow silent and look up at Mr. Tweedy] Why, you thieving little buggers!
  • MRS. TWEEDY! THE CHICKENS ARE REVOLTING!
  • It's all in your head. It's all in your head.
  • Oh, yes. Those chickens are up to something.
  • [Whispering to himself] They're organized. I know it. That Ginger one. I reckon she's their leader.
  • [To Mrs. Tweedy, after the chickens have escaped and the farm is covered in gravy] I told ya they was organized.
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Dialogue

Ginger: Think everyone, think! What haven't we tried yet?
Bunty: We haven't tried "not" trying to escape.
Ginger: So laying eggs all your life and then getting plucked, stuffed and roasted is good enough for you, is it?
Babs: It's a livin'.
Bunty: In all my life I've never heard such a fantastic.. "load" of TRIPE! Oh face the facts, ducks; the chances of us getting out of here are a million to one.
Ginger: Then there's still a chance.
Mrs. Tweedy: Chickens go in; pies come out.
Mr. Tweedy: Oh! What kind of pies?
Mrs. Tweedy: [sarcastic] Apple.
Mr. Tweedy: My favourite!
Mrs. Tweedy: Chicken pies, you great lummox!
Babs: Morning, Ginger. Back from holiday?
Ginger: I wasn't on holiday, Babs. I was in solitary confinement.
Babs: Oh, it's nice to get a bit of time to yourself, isn't it?
Ginger: Listen. We'll either die free chickens or we die trying.
Babs: Are those the only choices?
Fowler: [About Rocky] I don't like the look of this one. His eyes are too close together. And he's a YANK!
Rocky: Easy, pops. Cockfighting's illegal where I come from.
Bunty: And where is that, exactly?
Rocky: Ah, just a little place I call "The Land of the Free", "The Home of the Brave"...
Mac: Scotland!
Rocky: No! America!
Rocky: The name's Rocky. Rocky the Rhode Island Red. Rhodes for short.
Random Hen: Rocky Rhodes?!
Rocky: Catchy, ain't it?
Ginger: But you're supposed to be up there! You're the pilot!
Fowler: Don't be ridiculous. I can't fly this contraption.
Ginger: "Back in your day"? The Royal Air Force?
Fowler: 644 Squadron, Poultry Division! We were the mascots.
Ginger: You mean you never actually flew the plane?!
Fowler: Good heavens, no! I'm a chicken! The Royal Air Force doesn't let chickens behind the controls of a complex aircraft!
Rocky: You see, flying takes three things: Hard work, perseverance and... hard work.
Fowler: You said "hard work" twice.
Rocky: That's because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
Nick: First of all, we sneak in all quiet, like...
Fetcher: [interrupting] Like a fish!
Nick: Yeah, like a-- [pauses] Like a fish? You stupid Norbert.
Nick: [aboard the flying machine] The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees and--
Fetcher: Kiss your bum goodbye!
Mr. Tweedy: [being attacked by the chickens] MRS. TWEEDY! THE CHICKENS ARE REVOLTING!
Mrs. Tweedy: [not paying attention] Finally, something we agree on.
Nick: Eggs from Heaven.
Fetcher: No, from her bum.
[On the flying machine]
Fowler: We need more power!
Mac: I can't work miracles, captain! We're giving her all she's got!
[later]
Fowler: Great Scott! What was that!?
Mac: A cling-on, Captain! And the engines cannot take it!
Fowler: Increase velocity!
Babs: What does that mean?
Bunty: It means PEDAL YOUR GIBLETS OUT!!!
[After everyone is yelling]
Rocky: Whoa, whoa, hold up! Let's get right to the point. Where am I?
Ginger: Oh, yes, how rude of us. It's just that we're very exci-- [clears thought] This is a chicken farm.
Babs: And we're the chickens! [winks]
[Ginger makes a speech to the hens with Rocky behind her]
Ginger: I knew it was possible.
Rocky: Oh its possible alright.
Ginger: I knew the answer would come.
Rocky: Amen!
Ginger: We're all going to FLY over that fence and Mr. Rhodes is going to SHOW us how, right?
Rocky: That's.. ooooh WHAT?.. Did you say, fly?
Ginger: You can teach us.
Rocky: No I can't.
[The other hens sigh in despair]
Rocky: Listen, shh, you hear that?
[Silence]
Rocky: That's the open road calling my name and I was born to answer that call. Bye. [Dashes out the coop]
Babs: He must have very good hearing.
[Fowler is forced to share his bunk with Rocky]
Fowler: ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS! Asking a senior officer to share his quarters?! And with a non-commissioned Yank, no less! Why, back in my day, I'd never...
Rocky: Hey, you weren't exactly my first choice either. And scoot over, your wing's on my side of the bunk--
Fowler: "YOUR SIDE OF THE BUNK"?! The WHOLE bunk is MY side of the bunk!
Rocky: [snapping back] Just-- What's that smell, is that your breath?
Fowler: [grumbling] ... It's absolutely outrageous...
Mac: THRUST! [rapidfire] I went over my calculations, hen, and I forgot the key element missing is thrust!
[Silence]
Rocky: I-– I didn't get a word of that.
Mac: THRUST! Other birds, like ducks and geese, when they take off, what do they have? THRUST!
Rocky: I swear she ain't using real words.
Ginger: She said we need more thrust.
Rocky: Oh! Thrust! Well, of course we need thrust! Thrust and flying are like, well, like this. [Crosses fingers] That's flying, and... that's thrust.
Ginger: Where there's a will, there's a way
Rocky: Couldn't agree more. And I will be leaving that way.
Ginger: So that's it! You're from the circus.
Rocky: Shh!
Ginger: You're on the run, aren't you?
[Rocky pulls her behind a hut]
Rocky: You want to keep it down?! I'm trying to lay low here!
Ginger: I should turn you in right now!
Rocky: You wouldn't!... Would you?
Ginger: Give me one reason why I shouldn't.
Rocky: Because I'm... cute?
[Ginger squawks loudly]
Rocky: [clamps her beak shut] Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey! What kind of crazy chick are you? Do you know what will happened if he finds me?!
Ginger: It's a cruel world.
Rocky: I've just decided, I don't like you.
Ginger: I've just decided, I don't care. Now show us how to fly.
Rocky: With this wing?!
Ginger: Teach us, then!
Rocky: No!
[Ginger squawks again]
Mrs. Tweedy: He's valuable, you say?
Circus Man: Sure.
Mrs. Tweedy: get the torch.
Rocky: [clamps her beak close again] Now you listen here, sister. I'm not going back to that life! I'm a lone free ranger - emphasis on "FREE"!
Ginger: And that's what we want! Freedom!
[Rocky notices the Tweedys approaching]
Ginger: Fancy that, they're coming this way.
Rocky: Oh no! Oh no, they're after me!
Ginger: Teach us to fly, and we'll hide you.
Rocky: And if I don't?!
[Ginger starts to squawk again when Rocky clamp her beak shut the instant she does]
Rocky: Was your father, by any chance, a VULTURE?!
Ginger: Do we have a deal? [Offers her wing to seal the deal]
Rocky: Time to make good on that deal, doll--
Ginger: [grabs his beak] The name... is Ginger.
Ginger: I thought you were going to teach us how to fly.
Rocky: That's what I'm doing.
Ginger: ... Isn't there usually some flapping involved?
Rocky: Hey, do I tell you how to lay eggs? Relax! We're making progress.
Ginger: Really? I can't help feeling we're going around in circles.
[Ginger points to the chickens, who are indeed, spinning around in circles]
Rocky: Whoah, woah, cut it out! You're making "me" dizzy!
[The chickens stop, and start wobble around uneasily and toppling over]
Rocky: There. I think they're ready to fly now.
Ginger: Good, because they certainly can't walk anymore!
Rocky: You know what your problem is? You're... difficult!
Ginger: Why, because I'm honest?! I care about what happens to them! Nothing I'd expect a lone free ranger to know anything about!
Rocky: Hey, if this is the way you show it, I hope you never care about me!
Ginger: I can assure you, I never will!
Rocky: Good!
Ginger: Fine!
[Ginger has been strapped on the pie machine, and can't get free]
Ginger: Oh great! Brilliant!
Rocky: Yo! baby doll!
Ginger: Rocky!
Rocky: I'm coming! [He begins slipping on the metal] I'm still coming!
Ginger: Come on! Stop this thing!
Rocky: I'm getting there!
[The machine releases Ginger. Rocky makes a grab at her but misses as she falls down a chute]
Rocky: Oh, "chute"!
Ginger: ROCKY!
Rocky: Don't worry! I'll be down there before you can say...
[Mixed vegetables tumble towards him]
Rocky: ... MIXED VEGETABLES?!
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Taglines

  • This Ain't No Chick Flick!!
  • Escape or Die Frying.
  • A Few Good Hen.
  • There's Nothing More Determined Than Poultry With A Plan.
  • She's Poultry In Motion.
  • Feathers will Fly!
  • The Lone Free Ranger.
  • It's Chicken Impossible.
  • A Chicken Will Rise!
  • The Cluck Stops Here.
  • Run, Don't Walk!
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