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- When they find out that Babe can earn money by going to the state fair, they head off immediately. But Babe and Mrs. Hoggett are destined for trouble. They miss their connecting flight and get stranded in the city--which is no place for a pig!
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One morning, Babe is awakened by the sheep's cries and sees three feral dogs attacking them. Despite managing to scare them off, Maa is mortally injured and dies as a result. Arthur arrives, thinking that Babe killed her because he has blood on his snout when he had nuzzled her, prepares to shoot him for doing so.
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- James Cromwell thought the original idea for Babe was silly. When actor James Cromwell first heard about Babe, which is based on Dick King-Smith's novel, “I thought it sounded silly,” he told Vegetarian Times.
- Farmer Hoggett has just 16 lines in Babe. But by that point, Cromwell was already sold on the script, intrigued by what he called the “sophisticated yet pure-of-heart piglet.”
- It took 48 different pigs to play the role of Babe. Because pigs grow quickly, the crew utilized four dozen Large White Yorkshire piglets throughout the course of filming, shooting six at a time over a three-week period.
- Babe also featured one animatronic pig. Animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller seemed almost embarrassed to admit that they did have one animatronic pig play Babe, too.
Mar 7, 2017 · Of course, because of Babe, all the adults end up MIA because Mrs. Hoggett is in jail, and the hotel matron is with her uncle, who all but dies after Babe managed to catch his hospital on fire. So, because all the adults are gone, the animals in hiding need food.
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He's only saved when Fly runs up and stops Hoggett from shooting Babe; moments later, Mrs. Hoggett runs up and reports the neighbors had just lost several lambs to wild dogs, clearing Babe.
Aug 3, 2020 · As a kids' movie, Babe, also took big risks. The pigs, sheep and cattle on Hoggett's farm were explicitly meat animals, and at one point, wild dogs kill a sheep — dark concepts for small children.
Nov 25, 1998 · The movie begins with Babe returning in triumph to the farm with his sheep dog trophy. Alas, he soon falls into the well, setting in motion a calamitous chain of events that ends with Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) laid up in bed, and Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) forced to exhibit Babe at a state fair to save the farm from foreclosure. Alas ...
