The Secret of NIMH (1982)

[Mandy]

4.33 star(s) Rating: 4.33/5 3 Votes

Title: The Secret of NIMH

Tagline: Right before your eyes and beyond your wildest dreams.

Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Family

Director: Don Bluth

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Shannen Doherty, Wil Wheaton, Jodi Hicks, Ian Fried, John Carradine, Peter Strauss, Paul Shenar

Release: 1982-06-17

Runtime: 82

Plot: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.

 

[Mandy]

A little movie from my childhood. I remember they had us read the book in school .

 

[JHG]

I liked this a lot.