Magda Szubanski
Mrs. Hoggett
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A 1998 comedy-drama adventure film and the sequel to Babe. It follows Babe the pig and his friends as they face new challenges in the city of Metropolis.
Nov 25, 1998 · Babe: Pig in the City is a 1998 adventure comedy film about a pig who goes to the city to save his farm. IMDb provides cast and crew details, user and critic ratings, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this sequel to Babe.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- George Miller
- 1998-11-25
In order to pay their debt, Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) sends Babe off across the ocean to the city to demonstrate his talents as a sheep herder. Along with his friends, Babe meets a lot of...
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- George Miller
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- Magda Szubanski
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is a 1998 Australian-American comedy-drama adventure film and the sequel to the 1995 film Babe. It is co-written, produced and directed by George Miller, who co-wrote and produced the original film. Most of the actors from the first film reappeared as their respective roles, including James Cromwell, Miriam Margolyes, Hugo Weaving, Danny Mann, Roscoe Lee Browne and Magda Szubanski with newcomers featuring Glenne Headly, Steven Wright, James Cosmo, Myles Jeffrey, and Mickey Rooney. However, most of them have only brief appearances, as the story focuses on the journey of Babe and Arthur Hoggett's wife Esme in the fictional city of Metropolis and Elizabeth Daily replaces Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of Babe.
The film was nominated for Best Original Song at the 1998 Academy Awards. The movie was neither critically nor commercially as successful as its predecessor, grossing only $69.5 million on a $90 million budget and receiving mixed reviews.
A few weeks after the events of the first film, Arthur Hoggett is injured in an accident while he and Babe attempt to fix the farm's well, leaving his wife Esme to tend the farm alone. Then threatened with eviction at the end of the month unless the mortgage is paid, Esme takes Babe to a sheepdog herding contest in hope of using the prize money to save the farm. At the city of Metropolis' airport, an overzealous sniffer dog falsely signals that Babe and Esme are carrying drugs, causing them to miss their flight and forcing a few days wait for the next flight home.
At first unable to find a hotel that allows animals, Esme and Babe find accommodation at a hotel run by Miss Floom, who provides animals with a refuge much to the chagrin of her neighbours. There Babe is separated from Esme and meets a trio of chimpanzees—Bob, his wife Zootie and his little brother Easy—and Thelonius, a civilized Bornean orangutan who is a butler for the landlady's elderly uncle, Fugly. Babe is made part of their clown act, which he is reluctant to appear in until the apes insinuate that he will be paid. Meanwhile, Esme, believing Babe has escaped, goes looking for him but is arrested after an incident involving police officers and other bystanders while a gang of skaters attempted to mug her.
The next morning, Fugly is taken to the hospital in a food coma, accompanied by his niece. Left to fend for themselves, the hotel's animal occupants soon become hungry and the chimps decide to steal food from a store, using Babe to distract a pair of guard dogs. Babe rescues one of the dogs when he falls into a canal, who pledges to act as bodyguard to Babe. Having flown all the way to Metropolis, Ferdinand the Duck finds Babe at the hotel, where Zootie gives birth to twins. The celebration is interrupted when several unfriendly animal control officers are summoned there by the Flooms' neighbour, Hortense, who dislikes animals.
Most of the animals are removed except for Babe, Ferdinand, a capuchin monkey called Tug and a disabled Jack Russell terrier named Flealick. They infiltrate the animal control facility and rescue their wrongfully imprisoned friends. Released from custody, Esme returns to the hotel to find it in disarray and Miss Floom mourning her uncle. After confronting Hortense, they track down the animals to a charity dinner and retrieve them all. Floom sells the hotel and gives the proceeds to Esme to save the farm, where she and all the animals go to stay. Esme resumes her duties and Arthur recovers, and after finally fixing the farm's water pump, proudly smiles at Babe and says, "That'll do, Pig. That'll do."
•E.G. Daily as Babe, a pig.
•Magda Szubanski as Esme Cordelia Hoggett, Arthur's wife.
•Steven Wright as Bob, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Zootie's husband and Easy's older brother.
•Mickey Rooney as Fugly Floom, Miss Floom's late uncle.
•Glenne Headly as Zootie, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Bob's wife and Easy's sister-in-law.
•Nathan Kress and Myles Jeffrey as Easy, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Bob's younger brother and Zootie's brother-in-law.
•Unlike the previous film, this one lacks a book-counterpart.
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Nov 25, 1998 · A sequel that surpasses the original, this film follows Babe the pig as he faces new challenges and adventures in a fantastical city. Roger Ebert praises its imagination, humor, and literacy, and gives it four stars.
Jan 9, 2012 · Watch the official trailer of Babe: Pig in the City, a 1998 comedy film directed by George Miller and starring James Cromwell and Mickey Rooney. Babe, a pig who won a sheepherding contest, has to save his farm from a greedy land developer.
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Babe's kind and steady heart achieves miracles once again as he, Ferdy and Mrs. Hoggett travel to the city where they must turn enemies into friends and rais...
