Charlotte's Web (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Gary Winick |
| Produced by | Jordan Kerner |
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Susannah Grant Karey Kirkpatrick |
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Charlotte's Web by E. B. White |
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| Narrated by | Sam Shepard |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
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Susan Littenberg Sabrina Plisco |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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97 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $85 million |
| Box office | $144,877,632 |
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| Released | 2006 | |||
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Charlotte's Web is a 2006 American live-action feature film based on the book of the same name by E. B. White. It was directed by Gary Winick and produced by Paramount Pictures, Walden Media, The K Entertainment Company, and Nickelodeon Movies. The screenplay is by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, based on White's book.
It is the second film adaptation of White's book, preceded by a 1973 cel-animated version produced by Hanna-Barbera for Paramount Pictures.
One spring, on a farm in Somerset County, Maine, Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) finds her father about to kill the runt of a litter of newborn pigs. She successfully begs him to spare its life. He gives it to her, who names him Wilbur and raises him as her pet. To her regret, when he grows into an adult pig, she is forced to take him to the Zuckerman farm, where he is to be prepared as dinner in due time.
Charlotte A. Cavatica (Julia Roberts), a spider, lives in the space above Wilbur's sty in the Zuckermans' barn; she befriends him and decides to help prevent him from being eaten. With the help of the other barn animals, including a comedic rat named Templeton (Steve Buscemi), she convinces the Zuckerman family that Wilbur is actually quite special, by spelling out descriptions of him in her web: "Some pig", "Terrific", "Radiant", and "Humble". She gives her full name, revealing her as a barn spider, an orb-weaver spider with the scientific name Araneus cavaticus.
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