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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.
21 May 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
16 February 1952, Akron, Ohio, USA
26 January 1956, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 December 1944, London, England, UK
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 August 1919, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
18 August 1926, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1946, Tucson, Arizona, USA
4 October 1978, Tarzana, California, USA
May 16, 2016
An intimate and entertaining animated epic...November 24, 2009
Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie.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.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.January 01, 2000
A bright-eyed tale of Jewish triumphs that will find a place in many young hearts.September 10, 2008
The overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a lookJanuary 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.August 30, 2004
Witless if well-meaning.December 21, 2010
Adorable, heartwarming tale of immigrant mouse.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.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.September 10, 2008
There's nothing particularly special about An American Tail, save for Bluth's slick animation.