A half hour animated film based on the best-selling children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler. One wild and windy night, the Gruffalos child ignores her fathers warnings and bravely tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse. She meets Snake, Owl and Fox but no sign of the fabled Mouse. He doesn't really existor does he? A companion film to the hugely successful The Gruffalo. With the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Robbie Coltrane, James Corden, Shirley Henderson, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson.