Most people best know the chicken from their dinner plates -- whether as thigh, wing or drumstick. Consumers barely pause a moment to consid er the bird's many virtues. Filmmaker Mark Lewis (Cane Toads: An Unnat ural History and Rat) expands the frontiers of popular awareness and d elightfully reveals that this small, common and seemingly simple anima l is as complex and grand as any of Earth's creatures.