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Bookmark this pageAn American Tail (1986)
Director: Don Bluth
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From Time Out Film Guide
An animated feature set towards the end of the last century, this is a tale of persecuted Russian mice - the Mouskowitzes - travelling to America in search of a cat-free life. Inevitably, young Feivel is separated from his family and left to wander the mean streets of the Big Apple, encountering corrupt Irish-American politicians from Tammany Hall, streetwise Italian-American guttersnipes, and friendly French pigeons. For all its state-of-the-art animation techniques, Spielberg's production remains resolutely conservative: visually it's virtually indistinguishable from Walt at his wimpiest.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Don Bluth
Producer: Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, Gary Goldman
Cast: Phillip Glasser, Hal Smith, Christopher Plummer, Dom De Luise, Madeline Kahn full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 80 mins
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