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Goldcrest, Warner Bros. Film Directed By Martin Rosen The Watership Down Deluxe Edition DVD is a welcome reissue of a highly underrated children's classic. 9/10. In 1978, first-time director Martin Rosen took Richard Adams' children's book and turned it into one of the most under-appreciated animated films of all time. Mixing rabbit myth with taut storytelling, Watership Down evokes a world as realistic as it is wondrous. What's It About? Fiver (Richard Briers), a runty rabbit living in rural England, has a terrible vision. The warren is about to be destroyed, and his fellow rabbits must find another home before they're all killed. Fiver's older brother Hazel (John Hurt) believes him, as does the muscular Bigwig (Michael Graham Cox), but not the Chief Rabbit. He forbids them to speak of it again, lest they cause a needless... [read full story]
