Animal Farm is a 1999 political comedy-drama television film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes. Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, it features Kelsey Grammer, Sir Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sir Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Pete Postlethwaite and Sir Peter Ustinov. In the film, a group of anthropomorphic animals revolt successfully against their own human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.Wikipedia