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Genres:
Family, Comedy, Drama
Language:
English
Running time:
1:37:00
Partner rating:
G
Released:
Quality:
480 (DVD equivalent)

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Julia Roberts [Charlotte the Spider]
  2. Dakota Fanning [Fern]
  3. Steve Buscemi [Templeton the Rat]
  4. John Cleese [Samuel the Sheep]
  5. Oprah Winfrey [Gussy the Goose]
  6. Cedric the Entertainer [Golly the Goose]
  7. Kathy Bates [Bitsy the Cow]
  8. Reba McEntire [Betsy the Cow]
  9. Robert Redford [Ike the Horse]
  10. Thomas Haden Church [Brooks the Crow]
  11. Julia Roberts Charlotte the Spider
  12. Steve Buscemi Templeton the Rat
  13. John Cleese Samuel the Sheep
  14. Oprah Winfrey Gussy the Goose
  15. Cedric the Entertainer Golly the Goose
  16. Jim Carrey Llamando Conde Olaf
  17. Liam Aiken Klaus Baudelaire
  18. Emily Browning Violet Baudelaire
  19. Kara Hoffman Sunny Baudelaire
  20. Shelby Hoffman Sunny Baudelaire

Directors

  1. Gary Winick
  2. Brad Silberling

Producers

  1. Jordan Kerner

Writers

  1. Susannah Grant
  2. Karey Kirkpatrick
  3. E.B. White [Book Author]

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Charlotte's Web (2006)

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Trailer for Charlotte's Web (2006)

E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt of litter, but Fern has become attached to the little pig and persuades her father to let him live. The pig, named Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott K... E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt of litter, but Fern has become attached to the little pig and persuades her father to let him live. The pig, named Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott Kay), becomes Fern's pet, but when he grows larger, he's put in the care of Homer Zuckerman (Gary Basaraba), a farmer down the road. Fern is still able to visit Wilbur regularly, and it soon occurs to both of them that pigs tend to have a limited life expectancy on a farm, and that unless something unusual happens, Wilbur will eventually becomes someone's dinner. Charlotte, a friendly spider, hatches a plan to make Wilbur seem special enough to save by weaving messages about the "terrific" pig into her web, and she soon persuades her barnyard friends to join in her plan. Charlotte is voiced by Julia Roberts, while the other actors who provide the voices of the animals on Zuckerman's farm include Robert Redford, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, Cedric the Entertainer. Thomas Haden Church, and André Benjamin.

Trailer for Charlotte's Web (2006)

Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

78%Tomatometer score: 78% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Jamie Russell, Film4 Hides a big heart beneath a small piglet. – Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph This film does what all children's films should do: not just offer lots of entertaining things to look at, but teach children how to look at the world with curiosity, attentiveness and joy. – Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Andrew Pulver, Guardian [UK] It's hard to go wrong with a cute liddle piggy. – Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Wendy Ide, Times [UK] Adult audiences tend to find [Dakota Fanning] rather shrill - witnessing [her] at full shriek is like being attacked by a colony of bats. For this reason, Charlotte's Web is probably one for... – Full review External link
  5. Negative review
    Neil Smith, BBC If they'd stopped yammering for just a few minutes, White's heartbreaking ending might have retained its poignancy. As it is, it's little more than a blessed relief. – Full review External link

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