The Secret of NIMH

“Right before your eyes, and beyond your wildest dreams.”

7.5(934)19821h 23m

AdventureAnimationDramaFamilyFantasyMysteryScience Fiction

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.

Director

Don Bluth

Budget

$7.0M

Revenue

$14.7M

Cast

Elizabeth Hartman

Mrs. Brisby (voice)

Derek Jacobi

Nicodemus (voice)

Arthur Malet

Mr. Ages (voice)

Dom DeLuise

Jeremy (voice)

Hermione Baddeley

Auntie Shrew (voice)

Shannen Doherty

Teresa (voice)

Wil Wheaton

Martin (voice)

Jodi Hicks

Cynthia (voice)

Ina Fried

Timothy (voice)

John Carradine

Great Owl (voice)

Peter Strauss

Justin (voice)

Paul Shenar

Jenner (voice)

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Reviews

1 review

BryanGreyson

4mo ago

10.0

This is still one of my favorite animated movies. It combines so many different emotions so well: a cute and loving family, the urgency and danger of fleeing (/moving) your home with dangerous and action-filled scenes, and dark and scary moments involving cats and owls, clearly some of a mouse's biggest fears. Mrs Brisby herself is an absolutely lovely, beautiful character. Right from the st...