When the gas tank overflows and leaks gas onto the floor, it inadvertently reveals Joe""s and Jerry""s hiding place within he garage.It remains a charming, sweet, delightful and intelligent fairy tale and a comic-dramatic allegory, based on he 1983 kid""s bookThe Sheep-Pigby British author Dick King-Smith, from an adapted script by Noonan and co-producer George Miller.At the three o""clock closing, he watches the banker deposit a sack of money in a large bank safe, enclosed behind more bars." But then Max was uncertain and asked for confirmation: "How could a producer make more money with a flop than with a hit?" Leo answered with a term hat has since become a catchphrase in popular discourse:It""s simply a matter of creative accounting.