Amy Green, Christopher Plummer, Dom DeLuise

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61% liked it

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G, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Don Bluth

Release Date: November 21, 1986

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DVD Release Date: January 20, 2004

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  • September 6, 2008
    An ok cartoon film.
  • August 18, 2008
    I remember this so vividly. I remember the loneliness. I remember the longin.
  • August 14, 2008
    we-wese the sequet wepon
  • May 11, 2008
    Don Bluths An American Tail has its haters and lovers. A quirky movie with some memorable songs.
  • March 3, 2008
    Another movie I grew up with.
  • November 10, 2009
    this film was not to good. the main character jumps from situation to the next so quickly you don't get to see any characters. not the best animation
  • November 2, 2009
    Don Bluth brings to life the tale of Fievel a young mouse and his family's journey to America. A heart-breaking animated film which all the family can enjoy.
  • October 29, 2009
    Not only is An American Tail easily one of the best animated features ever made, but it proves to be leaps beyond the efforts of recent Disney movies by refusing to be constricted to an all-too-familiar formula. This movie does not stay within the cozy, comfortable guidelines tha...( read more)t Disney adheres to in order to make money. Instead, it tells a truly unique tale, one not borrowed from any other source, and one overflowing with artistic wonder and originality.

    The characters you will see here are not stock, not pulled from the typical Disney hat. The story is not a chuckle-a-minute, lowbrow attempt to take the easy way out in pandering to children. The main character, Fievel, suffers real hardships and tragedy, and stares into the despair of his own soul before the movie is finished. This, of course, makes the ending that much more satisfying, an infinitely more significant and authentic moment than any cardboard cut-out Disney plot.

    If you want to see what animation was meant to be as an art form, if you want to feel the power and emotion that can truly be reaped from this under-appreciated and over-commercialized medium, look no further than An American Tail.
  • October 18, 2009
    a story bout mice n cats mainly based on oppressive russia and praisin America for its value of freedom.
  • September 24, 2009
    There are no cats in america....... the first mistake fievel makes is believing the propaganda...

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

he movie has such vague ethnic grounds, however, that only a few children will understand or care that the Mousekewitzes are Jewish. And few of those are likely to be entertained by such a tragic, glo... full review

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