Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios and directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. The film centres around a band of chickens, who seek a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from their certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pies. The Tweedys are a middle-aged couple who run their chicken farm in Yorkshire, England during the 1950s. Mrs. Tweedy (voiced by Miranda Richardson) serves as the genius and temper, while Mr. Tweedy (voiced by Tony Haygarth) is rather slow and insane, but handles his manual work. The coop is run in the style of a World War II POW camp, with the chickens accountable for the number of eggs they lay daily. One chicken, Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha), has attempted numerous plans to flee the coop, aided by contraband smuggled into the coop by two rats, Nick and Fetcher (voiced by Timothy Spall and Phil Daniels), but is always captured by Mr. Tweedy and his dogs, and Ginger is thrown into the solitary confinement numerous times. Meanwhile, Mrs.