Watership Down
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you... but first they must catch you.
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
- Director
- Martin Rosen
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $4M
Who's in it
Cast
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20 billed performers
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When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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Box Office & Release
Watership Down returned 3.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $4M
- Release date
- Oct 14, 1978
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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