The clamorous faux-zydeco of "Run Chicken Run" bursts with energy.

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Her complex character is reflected at home where ultra-modern brushed-metal decor overlooks a natural swimming pool brimming with pond life and the chicken run at the end of the garden.

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"I liked Chicken Run and Galaxy Quest, and you've got to be impressed when someone from the studio phones up from Hollywood one night and turns up for lunch in Wiltshire the very next day, " he said.

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Chicken Run featured the voices of Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and was the first full-length film to be made by Bristol-based Aardman Animations - best known for its Wallace and Gromit films - with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company.

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KGB-run but less exalted border guards before becoming manager of a chicken farm.

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In a more destructive but higher-stakes mode, two kids would run straight at each other at full speed until one (the chicken) turned away to avoid the collision.

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Her run-in with the apparition took place when she was a young girl in bed with the chicken pox.

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