- Release Date: 1997
- Runtime: 88 min
- Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
- Starring: Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Antony Sher ... see all
- Director: Terry Jones
- Plot: Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr.Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil... Read more
User Reviews
Wind in the Willows - Review
Jan 28, 2007
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The adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger & Toad come to life in this stunning movie starring some of the famous people from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Arch enemies, the Weasles, have knocked Mole's home in to build a dog food factory... Full review
Critics Reviews
MTV.com
Lawrence Van Gelder (New York Times) reviewed, "The Wind in the Willows, brimming with verbal and visual wit and imagination, driven by high adventure, reveling in English eccentricity, enlivened by bursts of song, unafraid of ideas and filled with color and splendid performances, exposes most other movies intended to attract children as out-and-out pap. ... Full Review
Christian Spotlight on the Movie
Based on the classic children's book, Wind in The Willows is a whimsical live action tale of Mole (Steve Coogan) and Rat's (Eric Idle) adventures with talking clocks, stolen cars, old-fashioned, dig-out-a-hole prison escapes.
As directed by Terry Jones, Wind in The Willows is a respectable showcase for most of the Monty Python gang.
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News
FILM REVIEW -- `Wind' Has Classic Charm Grahame's thoughtful fable deserves wider audience
sfgate.com –
1998-01-09
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: Comedy. Starring Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin. Directed by Jones. (PG. 80 minutes. At the Oaks in Berkeley and the Grand Lake in Oakland). ``The Wind in the Willows'' is ... Full Article
Mums and dads will probably appreciate this Monty Pythonesque adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's marvellous children's tale as much, if not more, than their children. Terry Jones directs a magnificent ensemble of British funnymen and actors and plays the incorrigible Toad... ... Full Article
Here's an interesting kid-friendly concoction that you might not have heard of, thanks to a big-time distributor with cold feet. An adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows , Terry Jones' Mr. Toad's Wild... ... Full Article

The Wind in the Willows (1996): Weasels
