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Today's Sundance "trailer of the day" is a wild trip to the city, with some wooly company.
"Shaun the Sheep" is the movie follow-up to Aardman Animation's British TV series that spun off from the studio's "Wallace & Gromit" franchise. (Shaun, fans of W&G will recall, first appeared in the 1995 short "A Close Shave.")
In the movie, Shaun and his flock pull a prank that goes too far, sending their farmer into the big city. Shaun and the flock, along with their sheepdog Bitzer, must go to the city — trying to blend in and avoid an obsessed animal-control officer — to find the Farmer and take him home.
"Shaun the Sheep" will screen in the Sundance Kids program of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.