Animal Farm is a made-for-TV film released in 1999 by Hallmark Films and broadcast on the American cable channel TNT. It is an adaptation of the 1945 George Orwell novel of the same name. The film tells the story of farm animals successfully revolting against their human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves. The film received mixed reviews when it was broadcast, with much criticism directed at its ending, in which the animals overthrow their own regime, as opposed to the novel's ending, which shows that the animals had so taken on the traits of their former human oppressors so thoroughly, that it was nearly impossible to tell which was which when both sides confronted each other.