Movie Review: An American Tail
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What Parents Should Know
Parents need to know that the main character, a mouse in a
foreign land, gets separated from his family. He also works at
a sweatshop under a menacing cat in disguise.
Families can talk about how their own ancestors came to America (or wherever else they settled) and about the immigrant experience.
Common Sense Media Review
Feivel Mousekewitz is a little Russian mouse who emigrates
to the United States with his family, after they are told that
"there are no cats in America and the streets are paved with
cheese." He becomes separated from his parents and sister, and
is forced to work in a sweatshop by the evil Warren T. Rat (a
cat in disguise). Feivel is resilient and courageous, and finds
friends (including a kind cat) who help him until he finds his
family. The score features the hit song, "Somewhere Out
There."
One of three sequels, An American Tail: Feivel Goes West , features the voice of Jimmy Stewart as the slow-talking Sheriff Wylie Burp.
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