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With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adamss classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Ralph Richardson (
The Fallen Idol), Richard Briers (
Much Ado About Nothing), and Denholm Elliott (
Raiders of the Lost Ark),
Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.