Watership Down

Plot summary

Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention. Frightening and bloody in some scenes. Not recommended for young children. Written by Keith Loh {loh@sfu.ca}

In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's immenient destruction. When he and his loving brother, Hazel, fail to convince their chief of the need to evacuate; they set out on their own with a small band of others who heeded the warning and barely manage to elude the Warren's military caste. What follows is a perilous journey in which the band faces dangers of all varieties like predators, humans and even their own kind. While they eventually find a peaceful new home at Watership Down, they have new problems that will lead to a deadly conflict with the neighbouring Warren called Efrafa, which is a police state by the powerful and insane General Woundwart. Written by Kenneth Chisholm {kchishol@rogers.com}

Cast of Watership Down

	John Hurt	...	Hazel (voice)
	Richard Briers	...	Fiver (voice)
	Michael Graham Cox	...	Bigwig (voice)
	John Bennett	...	Holly (voice)
	Ralph Richardson	...	Chief Rabbit (voice)
	Simon Cadell	...	Blackberry (voice)
	Terence Rigby	...	Silver (voice)
	Roy Kinnear	...	Pipkin (voice)
	Richard O'Callaghan	...	Dandelion (voice)
	Denholm Elliott	...	Cowslip (voice)
	Lynn Farleigh	...	Cat (voice)
	Mary Maddox	...	Clover (voice)
	Zero Mostel	...	Kehaar (voice)
	Harry Andrews	...	Gen. Woundwort (voice)
	Hannah Gordon	...	Hyzenthlay (voice)