Babe 1 🎥 1995 Movie Info

Plot Summary

After being used in a “guess the weight” contest at an agricultural show, orphaned piglet Babe is brought home to the farm of the contest winner, Arthur Hoggett. There, he is taken in by Border Collie Fly, her irascible husband Rex and their puppies and befriends a duck named Ferdinand, who wakes people by crowing like a rooster every morning so he will be considered useful and be spared from being eaten. Dismayed when the Hoggetts buy an alarm clock, Ferdinand persuades Babe to help him get rid of it. In doing so, they wake Duchess, the Hoggetts’ cat, and wreck the house in the ensuing chaos.

Rex sternly instructs Babe to stay away from Ferdinand and the house. Seeing Fly saddened when her puppies are put up for sale, Babe lets her adopt him. With the Hoggetts’ relatives visiting for Christmas, Hoggett decides against choosing Babe for Christmas dinner and tells his wife Esme that Babe may bring a prize for ham at the next agricultural show. Ferdinand’s love interest Rosanna is served instead, prompting Ferdinand to escape the farm. Babe investigates the fields, where he witnesses a pair of sheep rustlers stealing Hoggett’s sheep and quickly alerts Fly and Hoggett, preventing the rustlers from taking them all.

Impressed after seeing Babe sort hens, separating the brown from the white ones, Hoggett takes him to try and herd the sheep. Encouraged by the elderly Maa, Babe gets the sheep to cooperate by asking nicely, but Rex perceives Babe’s actions as an insult to sheepdogs. When Fly stands up for Babe, Rex attacks and injures her and bites Hoggett’s hand when he tries to intervene. Rex is subsequently chained to the dog house and sedated, leaving the sheep herding job to Babe. One morning, Babe scares off a trio of feral dogs attacking the sheep, but Maa is mortally injured and dies as a result.

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