Charlotte's Web
About Charlotte's Web
E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt of litter, but Fern has become attached to the little pig and persuades her father to let him live. The pig, named Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott Kay), becomes Fern's pet, but when he grows larger, he's put in the care of Homer Zuckerman (Gary Basaraba), a farmer down the road. Fern is still able to visit Wilbur regularly, and it soon occurs to both of them that pigs tend to have a limited life expectancy on a farm, and that unless something unusual happens, Wilbur will eventually becomes someone's dinner. Charlotte, a friendly spider, hatches a plan to make Wilbur seem special enough to save by weaving messages about the "terrific" pig into her web, and she soon persuades her barnyard friends to join in her plan. Charlotte is voiced by Julia Roberts, while the other actors who provide the voices of the animals on Zuckerman's farm include Robert Redford, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, Cedric the Entertainer. Thomas Haden Church, and André Benjamin. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web starring John Cleese, Julia Roberts, Kathy Bates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi,...
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US Release Date
12/15/06
MPAA Rating
Rated G
Running Time
113 mins.
Locations
- Melbourne, Australia
- Victoria, Australia
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$82,506,325
Awards
- Winner of the Best Song award at the 2006 Las Vegas Film Critics Association Awards.
- Winner of the Best Family Film award at the 2006 Las Vegas Film Critics Association Awards.
- Winner of the Best Live Action Family Film award at the 2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.
- Winner of the Best Live Action Family Film award at the 2006 Phoenix Film Critics Association Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Young Actress award at the 2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Song award at the 2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.
Distributor
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Paramount Pictures
- Warner Bros.
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