Plot summary

With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director [url=nm0742034] brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of [url=nm0011293]'s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as [url=nm0000457], [url=nm0724732], [url=nm0001972], and nm0001186, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.