Synopsis
The film begins with the two pigs being taken to the slaughterhouse by
their owner, Ned (Gerard Horan).
They manage to escape and go on the run. When they end up in a local
back garden, the police are called and arrive in the form of PC 'Dusty'
Springfield (Darren Boyd), a vegetarian cop who dreams
of bigger things.
Realising that they must have escaped from the local slaughterhouse and
feeling sorry for them, he shoos them away.
In the pub that evening, Dusty tells his girlfriend, ambitious journalist
Jenny (Emma Pierson), about the pigs and she persuades
her editor to run a story in the local paper.
The national and international media picks up on the story and christen
the pigs Butch and Sundance.
The pigs soon encounter a group of crusties and drink some of their lager,
after which they experience a vision of a Wild Boar - who tells them how
to get home to Tamworth.
The following morning they set off…
With media attention hitting fever pitch, a strangely lupine man called
Wolf (Kevin Whately) decides to take up the hunt, interrupting
Dusty's incompetent press conference.
He sets a trap for the pigs involving pigswill and an electric prod,
but by this time Butch has grown wild enough to save his sister by biting
Wolf.
Wolf decides to use a different take - using a Tamworth sow as a 'honey
trap'.
Following the Wind Boar's instructions, the pigs finally reach home only
to find their mother's sty empty. The sow has led Wolf to the farm where
he captures them and takes them off in his van, heading back to the slaughterhouse.
Dusty and Jenny give chase. In a dramatic finale, Butch escapes Wolf's
clutches by leaping into a quarry, while Dusty manages to rescue Sundance.
The local paper agrees to buy Sundance (and another pig posing as Butch)
and puts The Tamworth Two in an animal sanctuary.
Meanwhile, Butch encounters a real wild pig and joins his gang roaming
free.
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