An American Tail Movie Review 1986

While emigrating to New York in the 1880s, a young Russian mouse (Fievel) is separated from his family. He matures as he learns to live on the Big Apple's dirty boulevards. The bad guys are of course cats. Excellent animation and a high-minded (though sentimental and stereotypical) plot keep it interesting for adults. Produced by Spielberg and the first big hit for the Bluth factory, a collection of expatriate Disney artists. Knowing better than to let a money-making mouse tale languish, Bluth followed with "An American Tale: Fievel Goes West."

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 81 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Animated Musicals, Producers: Steven Spielberg, Immigration, Nice Mice, Cats, Wild Kingdom

Director

Don Bluth

Music

James Horner

Other

Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Phillip Glasser, Christopher Plummer, Nehemiah Persoff, Will Ryan, John Finnegan, Cathianne Blore

Producer

Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall