Animal Rights
Like much of popular culture, many movies are preoccupied with the conflict between right and wrong aka good and evil. The audience sides with the heroic protagonist (who stands for what's right against evil and adversity) safe in the knowledge that good (that's us) will triumph before the credits roll.
Films with 'animal rights' themes turn this cinematic convention on its head as the villainous shape of evil which harries our hirsute hero-folk is revealed to be ourselves. For some viewers this is a bitter pill to swallow (sugar-coating is almost mandatory) and thus a hard sell to investors, resulting in precious few films on the subject.
All praise then to Alice's vast and mighty catalogue from which this humble offering has been gleaned! Food for thought from Alice's cruelty-free restaurant! Bon appetit!
Pictured: Sales of bacon and pork dropped dramatically after the release of family classic 'Babe' (1995).
101 Dalmatians (1996)
5.7/10
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson
Glenn Close plays the perfectly wicked Cruella De Vil, the fur-loving fashion maven who's obsessed with obtaining dalmatian pelts for her new line in... Read more
101 Dalmatians (Disney) (1961)
7.2/10
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Rod Taylor, Lisa Davis, Cate Bauer
The Walt Disney charmer concerning a family of Dalmatians which run afoul of the deliciously evil Cruella De Vil. In keeping with the jazzier soundtra... Read more
101 Dalmatians (Disney) (Copy) (1961)
7.7/10
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Cate Bauer, Lisa Davis, Rod Taylor
The Walt Disney charmer concerning a family of Dalmatians which run afoul of the deliciously evil Cruella De Vil. In keeping with the jazzier soundtra... Read more
102 Dalmatians (2000)
4.9/10
Director: Kevin Lima
Starring: Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans
After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison a changed woman. Devoted to dogs and good causes, she is delighted that Chloe, her paro... Read more
Animals: Friend or Food? (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Jason Young
For most of man's time on earth, we killed what we ate. With the rise of cities, we left the butchering to professionals, but after trading his home i... Read more
Babe (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Chris Noonan
Starring: Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell
An orphaned piglet named Babe is won by a farmer at a fair and is taken home to a barnyard where the animals have the ability to talk to one another.... Read more
Bambi (1942)
7.3/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Bambi, Thumper
The Disney crew worked for four years to animate Felix Salten's woodland tale, resulting in some of the studio's most memorable characters (young fawn... Read more
Blackfish (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Killer whales are beloved, majestic, friendly giants yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously. "Blackfish" unravels the complexities of this... Read more
Charlotte's Web (1972)
6.3/10
Director: Charles Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde
One of the enduring children's films, this is a story of friendship and salvation, with Charlotte the spider trying to save her friend Wilbur the pig... Read more
Charlotte's Web (2006)
6.3/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Beau Bridges, Voices Of, Julia Roberts, Steve Bu...
E.B. White's famous book gets the big screen treatment and an all-star cast with Dakota Fanning as the farmer's daughter who becomes attached to the r... Read more