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An American Tail
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. While emigrating to the United States,he gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
29 September 1942, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
15 July 1946, Tucson, Arizona, USA
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 October 1930, New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
1 August 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
26 January 1956, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
February 18, 2006
Like other Spielberg-produced features, this one pays homage to old movie traditions (live-action Westerns) and icons, but the film has been made mechanically.
January 01, 2000
A bright-eyed tale of Jewish triumphs that will find a place in many young hearts.
September 10, 2008
Cartoons with ambitions even this noble are as rare as Steven Spielberg films that lose money, but every character and every situation presented herein have been seen a thousand times before.
December 21, 2010
Adorable, heartwarming tale of immigrant mouse.
June 24, 2006
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.
November 24, 2009
Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie.
January 01, 2000
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, gloomy story.
September 10, 2008
There's nothing particularly special about An American Tail, save for Bluth's slick animation.
August 30, 2004
Witless if well-meaning.
September 10, 2008
The story is moving, and the animation includes some powerful images, although some of the early scenes depicting the suffering of the mice in Russia may be too frightening for younger viewers.
May 16, 2016
An intimate and entertaining animated epic...
September 10, 2008
The overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a look
