Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild (2011) on Netflix
NR20111h 33mAdventureAnimationDrama
Leafie, a hen in a battery cage, dreams of raising a chick of her own. She fakes death to escape the farm, and the egg she cares for hatches into a duckling.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.0/101,249 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
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Plot summary
Leafie lives in a battery cage on a chicken farm, where she lays eggs for a farmer and dreams of raising a chick. She cannot incubate her own eggs, so she fakes death until the farmer carries her out with the hens that have died. She wakes in the pit, and One-Eye, a one-eyed weasel, corners her. A mallard named Wanderer traps the weasel in a wheelbarrow and leaves without telling Leafie his name. Back in the farmyard, the rooster refuses her a place among the free animals and tells her to go on laying eggs. Leafie sets out for the wild, where Mr. Otter, who finds her lodging at Wanderer's request, takes her in. When she finds Wanderer again, she learns he has a mate.
Cast
- Sang-hyun Kimas One-Eye
- Sook-Kyeong Jeonas Jjaek
- Seong-ung Saas Red Head
- Ji-hye Kimas Mandarin
- Seung-won Seoas Owl
- Shin-Jeong Hanas Young Greenie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Oh Sung-yoon spent more than twenty years struggling as an animator before making this, his feature debut, and the film took Myung Films six years and $2.8 million to produce.
- No South Korean animated film had ever reached 1 million viewers before Leafie; it sold more than 2.2 million tickets, recouped its budget in four weeks and became the country's most successful animated film since A Story of Hong Gildong (1967).
- It became the first Korean animated film to play at Chinese theaters, opening on 3,000 screens, which is more than one-third of all the screens in the country.
- The English version removed six minutes of footage, renamed the characters (Leafie became Daisy, Greenie Willie, Wanderer Wilson and Red Head Ace) and replaced the original score with one by Patrick Cannell.
- Director Oh Sung-yoon said he and his crew aimed to make the visual effects as beautiful as possible: most of his staff had majored in painting and they chose a two-dimensional look so the whole film would resemble a picture.
- The everglades where much of the action takes place were inspired by South Korea's Upo wetlands, and the film's softer backgrounds read as typically Korean in their landscape and flora.
