Watership Down
(1978)
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In this animated adaptation of Richard Adams's classic novel, a family of rabbits face danger as they search for a new home and personal freedom. WATERSHIP DOWN, featuring the vocal talents of Sir Ralph Richardson, John Hurt, and others, is a highly regarded family film, but it's not necessarily just for children. |
Martin Rosen inherited this adaptation of Richard Adams's cult novel after John Hubley, who helped animate many Disney classics of the 1940s, had departed owing to “creative differences”. The visual and vocal characterisations are of variable quality, but it's hard to see what Hubley could have done to improve on Rosen's respectable version of what is a very difficult book to translate to the screen, especially when you take into account that animation for adults (the Japanese manga cartoons excepted) is still somewhat uncharted territory. One for fans and first-timers only, this isn't your average cuddly bunny movie, and contains scenes that may be disturbing for children.