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Directed by
Don Bluth
Produced by
David Kirschner
Steven Spielberg (executive producer)
Written by
Judy Freudberg
Tony Geiss
Starring
Phillip Glasser
Dom DeLuise
Nehemiah Persoff
Erica Yohn
Music by
James Horner
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date(s)
November 21, 1986
Running time
80 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Gross revenue
$84,542,002
Followed by
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
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An American Tail is a 1986 animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986. It was the first animated film produced by Universal Pictures.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Background
3 Characters 3.1 Fievel Mousekewitz (Phillip Glasser)
3.2 Tanya Mousekewitz (Amy Green)
3.3 Warren T. Rat (John Finnegan)
3.4 Papa Mousekewitz (Nehemiah Persoff)
3.5 Mama Mousekewitz (Erica Yohn)
3.6 Tony Toponi (Pat Musick)
3.7 Tiger (Dom DeLuise)
3.8 Henri (Christopher Plummer)
3.9 Other Characters
4 Box office
5 Production
6 Release
7 Sequels and spinoffs
8 Soundtrack 8.1 Soundtrack album track listing
8.2 Score cues left off the soundtrack[dubious discuss]
9 Notes
10 External links 10.1 tags //
Plot
The film starts off on Hanukkah in 1885, opening in the village of Shostka, Russia, and it shows the story of the life of a family of Jewish-Russian mice who emigrate after their village is destroyed by the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Believing in the American dream they head to New York City because (as a song repeated early in the picture goes) "there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese." Once there, they immediately discover that there are indeed cats in America (and plenty of them), and begin living in a typical late 19th century immigrant manner: working in a sweatshop, living in horrible conditions, and submitting to a feline protection racket as an alternative to being eaten.
The film follows Fievel Mousekewitz, who is separated from his family after falling overboard the SS Austria as it approaches America after departing the Port of Hamburg. With nowhere to go upon arrival, Fievel ends up meeting Warren T. Rat, a conman rat who sells him to a sweatshop. Fievel escapes and with his new friends Tony and Bridget, begins a search for his parents, who believe that Fievel drowned at sea.
During this time, the mice of New York decide that they are fed up with the continuous attacks by cats (and paying Warren for protection), and must find a way to defeat them. It is Fievel who suggests a plan to build a giant "Mouse of Minsk" (based on folklore) to chase the cats into the harbor where they will end up on a ship going to Hong Kong.
That night, the mice get to work. Fievel, however, still looking for his family, journeys through the sewers when he thinks he hears his Papa playing a violin. It turns out that the music is coming from Warren and a gang of cats. Warren is actually a cat in a rat disguise and is running a protection racket as the gang's boss. When they discover Fievel, the mouse is captured and imprisoned in a cage.
Fievel ends up befriending one of the cats, Tiger, who admits that he's a vegetarian, and that rate, he lets Fievel go. As a result, Warren fires Tiger from the gang, in which Tiger accepts, saying that he never liked hanging out with the gang. The rest of the cats chase him to the docks where Warren's identity as a small cat is revealed and the plan is successfully executed. The cats run and get on the ship. A major fire around the museum starts when Warren lits his match and drops it and human firefight

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