An American Tail is a 1986 animated musical adventure comedy-drama
film directed by Don Bluth, written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss,
and produced by Sullivan Bluth Inc. and Amblin Entertainment. The film
features the voices of Phillip Glasser, John Finnegan, Amy Green,
Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, and Christopher Plummer. It tells the
story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from
Shostka to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and
must find a way to reunite with them.An American Tail was released by
Universal Pictures on November 21, 1986, to mixed reviews and was a
box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated
film at the time. Its success, along with that of fellow Bluth film
The Land Before Time and Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit (both 1988),
and Bluth's departure from their partnership, prompted executive
producer Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio,
Amblimation, in London, England. The film spawned a franchise that
included a sequel entitled An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991),
a CBS TV series entitled Fievel's American Tails, and two additional
direct-to-video sequels.In 1885 Shostka, the Mousekewitzes, a
Russian-Jewish family of mice who live with a human family named
Moskowitz, are having a celebration of Hanukkah where Papa gives his
hat to his 5-year-old son, Fievel, and tells him about the United
States, a country where there are no cats. The celebration is
interrupted when a battery of Cossacks ride through the village square
in an anti-Jewish arson attack and their cats likewise attack the
village mice by throwing molotov cocktails at the Moskowitz home.
Because of this, the Moskowitz home, along with that of the
Mousekewitzes, is destroyed.
film directed by Don Bluth, written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss,
and produced by Sullivan Bluth Inc. and Amblin Entertainment. The film
features the voices of Phillip Glasser, John Finnegan, Amy Green,
Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, and Christopher Plummer. It tells the
story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from
Shostka to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and
must find a way to reunite with them.An American Tail was released by
Universal Pictures on November 21, 1986, to mixed reviews and was a
box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated
film at the time. Its success, along with that of fellow Bluth film
The Land Before Time and Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit (both 1988),
and Bluth's departure from their partnership, prompted executive
producer Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio,
Amblimation, in London, England. The film spawned a franchise that
included a sequel entitled An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991),
a CBS TV series entitled Fievel's American Tails, and two additional
direct-to-video sequels.In 1885 Shostka, the Mousekewitzes, a
Russian-Jewish family of mice who live with a human family named
Moskowitz, are having a celebration of Hanukkah where Papa gives his
hat to his 5-year-old son, Fievel, and tells him about the United
States, a country where there are no cats. The celebration is
interrupted when a battery of Cossacks ride through the village square
in an anti-Jewish arson attack and their cats likewise attack the
village mice by throwing molotov cocktails at the Moskowitz home.
Because of this, the Moskowitz home, along with that of the
Mousekewitzes, is destroyed.
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