I would like to associate myself with this article proclaiming Babe: Pig In the City an overlooked masterpiece. Easily the best hoofed-mammal-in-a-metropolitan-area movie of the past two decades.
That would be why Siskel and Ebert had it on their top ten lists for the year. Siskel had it at number one, ahead of The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, and other Oscar heavyweights.
I know! The shocking thing about that article was learning there were people on this earth who did not consider it a masterpiece. Those people are stupid.
Joshua Benton is a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, among other things. He is currently at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship. (More.)
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