| Released | October 3, 1999 |
| Duration | 91 minutes |
| Director | John Stephenson |
| Written by | Alan Janes & Martyn Burke |
| Music | Richard Harvey |
| Studio | Hallmark Entertainment |
Animal Farm was a made-for-television movie produced by Hallmark and using Jim Henson's Creature Shop effects. This adaptation of George Orwell's political satire on Communism featured a more hopeful ending, and debuted on TNT.
Animals that were built by the Creature Shop included four pigs (Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer), a shire horse (Boxer), two mares (Mollie and an unnamed black horse), a Border collie (Jessie), a rottweiler (Pincher), a donkey (Benjamin), a raven (Moses), a goat (Muriel), a flock of sheep, cows, a rat, chickens, ducks and pigeons.
Cast[]
- Pete Postlethwaite as Jones
- Alan Stanford as Mr. Pilkington
- Caroline Grey as Mrs. Jones
- Gail Fitzpatrick as Mrs. Pilkington
- Joe Taylor as Mr. Frederick
Voices[]
- Kelsey Grammer as Snowball
- Ian Holm as Squealer
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Mollie
- Julia Ormond as Jessie
- Pete Postlethwaite as Benjamin
- Paul Scofield as Boxer
- Patrick Stewart as Napoleon
- Peter Ustinov as Old Major
- Charlie Dale as Pincher and Moses
- Louise Gold as Mabel
- Jean Beith as Muriel
- Additional Voices: Amanda Symonds, Paul Mark Elliott, Nicole Tibbels, Tim Whitnall, Brian Gulland, Hannah King, Tim Merton-Laight, Charlotte Merton-Laight
Crew[]
- Producers: Robert Halmi Sr., Paul Lowin, Morgan O'Sullivan, and Greg Smith
- Principal Puppeteers: Phil Eason and John Wheatley with Frank Smith and Noel Lambert
- Creative Project Supervisor/Model Maker: Verner Gresty
- Sculpt Supervisor: Graham High
- Fabrication Supervisor: Nicola Tedman
- Animatronics Model Designers: Chris Clarke, Chris Coxon, Simon Hewitt
- Mechanical Department Supervisor: Geoff Paige