Credited cast: | |||
Erica Yohn | ... |
Mama Mousekewitz
(voice)
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Nehemiah Persoff | ... |
Papa Mousekewitz
(voice)
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Amy Green | ... |
Tanya Mousekewitz
(voice)
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Phillip Glasser | ... |
Fievel Mousekewitz
(voice)
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Christopher Plummer | ... |
Henri
(voice)
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John Finnegan | ... |
Warren T. Rat
(voice)
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Will Ryan | ... |
Digit
(voice)
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Hal Smith | ... |
Moe
(voice)
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Pat Musick | ... |
Tony Toponi
(voice)
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Cathianne Blore | ... |
Bridget
(voice)
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Neil Ross | ... |
Honest John
(voice)
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Madeline Kahn | ... |
Gussie Mausheimer
(voice)
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Dom DeLuise | ... |
Tiger
(voice)
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Alitzah | ... |
Tanya
(singing voice)
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Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off. Written by Michael Silva <silvamd@cleo.bc.edu>
As a non-American who has heard so often of The American Dream, I saw this movie as a celebration of that dream. The flight of the poor and oppressed (and Jewish?) from Europe to the proposed Land of Freedom and Wealth (There are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese?) to find more poverty and oppression (workhouses, cats and workhouse tout Warren T. Rat), but with the opportunity to do something about it that they did not have in the old country.
The song "Somewhere Out There" is quite perfectly matched with Fyvel and his family searching for each other, and the version heard in the movie is rather more expressive than the released single.
It is not necessarily fun for the whole family. Children will find it fun. Adults will find it interesting, not so much in fun as in pride and awareness, at least if they are Americans .