Video Description
Not wanting to become just another roast dinner, two Tamworth pigs escaped from a slaughterhouse in January 1998. Butch and Sundance, as they were christened by an over-excited media, became folk-heroes as they avoided capture for over a week. They were eventually saved from certain death by a national newspaper that sent them to an animal sanctuary. This is their story –
Babe-style. Under the supervision of Tim Haines, the producer of
Walking With Dinosaurs, real pigs are enhanced by computer technology to give them human-like characteristics. Backed up by a human cast, the plucky pigs journey through the English countryside to Tamworth, hoping to be reunited with their mother whilst the malevolent slaughterhouse boss, Wolf, plots their capture. Will they be able to avoid the traps he has set and reach Tamworth? Or are they doomed to be served between two slices of bread with a bit of tomato ketchup?
From the Back Cover
In 1998, as they were being unloaded from an abbattoir van, two pigs suddenly made a dash for it. Dubbed the ‘Tamworth Two’, they spent a week on the run and, as the public went pig potty, a legend was created. This is their story – straight from the pigs’ mouths – the amazing tale of Butch and Sundance …
The wild soon proves a scary place for hand-bred pigs used only to the best quality swill. Can local animal-loving PC ‘Dusty’ Springfield save their bacon? Can his girlfriend and local news reporter Jenny West hog the whole story? Is ‘Wolf’ the pig-hunter really that evil or is he just hamming it up? And, as they and the hoards of tabloid journalists close in on the porcine fugitives, will they be a runaway success or end up facing the chop?
