10 Suspiciously Similar Movies Released In The Same Year

9. Talking Pigs - Babe vs. Gordy (1995)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzAyAwQpOWQ Gordy is a family comedy about a sunglasses-clad, talking piglet, who heads off to search for his missing family once they're shipped off to a slaughterhouse. Released three months later, Babe was about a talking pig whose mother is also taken away to the slaughterhouse, causing him to end up in the hands of a kindly, local farmer where he begins making friends with the other talking animals. Which Came First: Gordy hit cinemas three months earlier, and is credited with a story conceived by Jay Sommers in the 1970s. However, Babe, though being released after Gordy, has a more definite basis for its story; Dick King Smith's 1983 children's book The Sheep-Pig. The claim that Sommers "came up with the idea" is speculative and there's not a whole lot to back that up; it's easier to believe that they just ended ripping off Smith at an inopportune time. Which Was Better: Gordy was critically reviled and a financial flop, whereas Babe was a commercial smash hit and wound up being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture among others. You tell me.