An American Tail

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1 hr. 20 min.

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Fantasy

Animation

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77%

86 Reviews

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71%

250,000+ Ratings

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A young mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz (Phillip Glasser) and his family emigrate from Russia to the United States by boat after their home is destroyed by cats. During the trip, a fierce storm throws Fievel from the ship, and he loses contact with his family. Luckily, he manages to sail to New York in a bottle. There, Irish mouse Bridget (Cathianne Blore), an Italian mouse named Tony (Pat Musick) and a kindly cat named Tiger (Dom DeLuise) help Fievel search for his loved ones.

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Critics Consensus

Exquisitely animated, An American Tail is a sweet, melancholy, immigrants story.

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Alicia

Love this childhood favorite!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/08/22

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Noe G

An American tail it's an amazing don bluth movie from 1986. I give this film a 10/10

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/06/24

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Ash P

Not just an American tale which shows how immigration was like back in the late 80s, but also an American tail of a little kid mouse looking for his family while going through the dangers in his own eyes. A few cheesy parts here yet always good for the kids especially if you're someone like me who grew up with this movie. 9/10.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/24

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Leticia q

This is epic on the secret weapon scene, oh gosh😆😆😆👁👄👁😆😆😆

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/04/23

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Jack O

When I was a kid, An American Tail was my favourite Don Bluth film. Since I've got the VHS of it years ago and now I gone of it and 11 years ago I've come across a website called YouTube where you can videos from it and no I didn't watch it on it. I've watched it a few years later. I was watching one of the Donald Duck cartoons. But now I watched it and remember everything about it, it still grown on me. It tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from the Imperial Russian territory of Ukraine to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them. Yeah, I remember it being cute at the time and I find all the characters cute like Fievel. He's the only one who has to find his family and not get eaten by cats. I remember all the characters. In fact I do remember that Tiger played by Dom DeLuise who didn't get enough screen time. He was there being friends with Fievel and then Fievel escapes from the cats. Tiger hates killing mice, he likes them. The animation is the same and you can tell it's Don Bluth. The music is great and it's composed by James Horner who composes many films in the generation such as 48 Hrs., Commando, Aliens, The Land Before Time which is a Don Bluth film, Braveheart and Titanic. I listen to the soundtrack every time I'm in a mood. The songs are catchy and everytime a song comes on they'll always come in your head like "There Are No Cats in America", "Never Say Never", "Somewhere Out There" and "A Duo". To me I love the song "Somewhere Out There" that Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram sings. The song is so beautiful I can't believe what I just witnessed. I love the music, I love the tune from it and I prefer this song than the one Fievel and Tanya sings. Hell, I even remember that song which somebody or two sung in Britain's Got Talent and that's really something. The ending is so beautiful you knew that Fievel has found his family and being reunited and it always gets you in the way that will make you cry and happy at the same time. Okay so that's took care of An American Tail and it's been awhile since years back. I know that a lot of people that don't really like this movie but when it comes The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail will always get you in the token of appreciation.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/29/23

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Cameron L

Dark and unfair to Fievel, but in the end, the harshness was very well worth it

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

06/22/23

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Don Bluth

Director

Erica Yohn

Mama Mousekewitz

Nehemiah Persoff

Papa Mousekewitz

Amy Green

Tanya Mousekewitz

Phillip Glasser

Fievel Mousekewitz

Christopher Plummer

Henri

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An American Tail: Official Clip - There Are No Cats In America

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Fievel On Fire

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Mouse Overboard!

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Somewhere Out There

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Finding Fievel

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An American Tail: Official Clip - The Secret Weapon

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Cossack Cats

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An American Tail: Official Clip - A Duo

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An American Tail: Official Clip - The Cat's out of The Bag

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An American Tail: Official Clip - Never Say Never

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Leonard Maltin

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It has the most important ingredient for a good cartoon feature: an appealing main character.

Rated: 3/4

May 19, 2023

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Eleanor Ringel Cater

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[It] celebrates the rich diversity of our melting-pot heritage; it doesn't insult kids (or adults) with fifth-rate Saturday-morning non-animation; and it gives us some wonderfully memorable characters that weren't already sitting on the Toys R Us shelves.

May 19, 2023

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Bill Cosford

Miami Herald

An American Tail is simply not remarkable. It's handsome, wholesome and eager to please, but its theme seems well beyond the ken of the very young. Worse, the plot has a dreadful familiarity to it -- the borrowings are extensive.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 19, 2023

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Malcolm Johnson

Hartford Courant

The sights and most of the sounds are always eye-filling and occasionally thrilling. The mouse's-eye views of old Manhattan are stunningly rendered, as are the bird's-eye panoramas. And Horner's score has sweep and splendor.

Rated: 3/4

May 19, 2023

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Michael Dare

L.A. Weekly

Its impossible to review Steven Spielberg's first fully animated venture without using the words "cute, charming and adorable," so I've disposed of them all in this first sentence.

May 19, 2023

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Juan Rodriguez Flores

La Opinion

...carefully reconstructed history... [Full review in Spanish]

May 18, 2023

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Synopsis

A young mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz (Phillip Glasser) and his family emigrate from Russia to the United States by boat after their home is destroyed by cats. During the trip, a fierce storm throws Fievel from the ship, and he loses contact with his family. Luckily, he manages to sail to New York in a bottle. There, Irish mouse Bridget (Cathianne Blore), an Italian mouse named Tony (Pat Musick) and a kindly cat named Tiger (Dom DeLuise) help Fievel search for his loved ones.

Director: Don Bluth
Executive Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, David Kirschner, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss
Production Co: Universal/Universal Int
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $44.9M
Sound Mix: Surround

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