Chicken Little

Episode Summary


Chicken Little (2005), the modern retelling of the classic folk
tale, will make you wish the sky was falling so the movie would
end. Erin and Rachel discuss the gender dynamics and fatphobia in
this story about a father and son (and also baseball and
aliens). 


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