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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Don Bluth
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
G
Year:
1986
80 min
1,800 Views


We're a duo

A duo

A pair of lonely ones

Who were meant to be a two-o

A duo

It's true-o

If we're ever in a stew

We know we

can make it through

Cause you've got me

And I got

Your

Yes, sir!

Where did that come from? Don't.

Oh, stop it! Uh! Oh!

Tiger, how did he get away?

He overpowered me.

You're fired.

Good. I'm glad.

I never liked you,

and besides, your music stinks.

Tony! Help!

Help! Cats!

Tony, Bridget, help!

Cats!

It's the cats!

Help!

Oh, they're early!

Wake up! Everybody, wake up!

Cats!

Help!

Wake up! The cats are here!

Wake up!

Cats!

The cats!

Release the secret weapon!

What? Release the... Oh, no!

Oh, no! Oh, no!

Oh, no! No, no!

Wait for the boat whistle!

Hold your fire.

It's that rat, Warren T.

He's not a rat.

He's a cat.

He's their boss.

Pay no attention to

that little mouse.

Just throw down all your

money and that kid.

And I will personally convince

these cats to leave you alone.

You're wrecking the plan!

It's not supposed

to happen this way!

Just throw down that kid!

Oh. yeah?

Bull's eye!

Disregard the nose.

What's in a nose?

A nose by any other name

would smell as sweet...

Great whiskers, it's a cat!

He's a cat!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute.

Who are you going to believe,

me or your own eyes?

Release the secret...

No, no!

Hey, easy, easy!

All right. Then, I take

it we can't do business.

Warren, you're through.

Washed up, ruined!

You'll never get another cent

from any mouse, anywhere.

Eh? We'll see about that.

Just wait, you little rat.

Just wait.

Adis!

Fire!

Oh! Tie it Off! Hurry!

Oh, saints be praised.

It stopped.

Release the secret weapon!

Release? Oh, no!

Release the secret weapon!

Make up your mind!

Ooh, ooh! My goodness!

Release the secret weapon!

Release the weapon!

Release the blasted weapon!

Faster, papa.

We can't do business here, huh?

Release the secret weapon!

Faster!

Get a load of that.

It's the Giant Mouse of Minsk!

Oh, you're right.

Yay!

Head for the pier!

We did it!

Whoa!

They can't swim!

Ladies and gentlemen,

credit where it's due.

We owe it all to Fillie

and his Mouse of Minsk!

Now there are no

cats in America...

Fillie! Who's Fillie?

Someday,

Gussie Mausheimer, someday!

And you, too, Mousekewitz.

All of you! I hate mice!

I'm having a heart attack here.

Oh, don't worry,

gentlemen. Don't worry.

There are plenty of

mice in Hong Kong.

Oh, my! I'll have to learn

to calculate in Chinese.

Hmm. Let me see, uh.

Hey, I wonder how you

say "trust me" in Chinese.

The pier's on fire!

Move it! Move it! Move it!

Bring that hose over here.

You there, come on!

Fillie!

Fillie Mousekewitz!

Where are you?

Tony, look.

Fievel!

Fillie!

Papa, listen.

Fillie Mousekewitz!

Ah, so what? Someone is

calling a Fillie Mousekewitz.

They changed my name to Tilly.

Maybe they changed Fievel's

name to Fillie.

Come on, Papa. Just got to see.

Wait!

Stop! Stop!

Hurry. Hurry!

Fillie Mousekewitz!

Fillie!

Wait!

Stop! om

You are calling for

a Fillie Mousekewitz, right?

Here, tell my daughter his

name is Fillie and not Fievel.

His name is Fillie.

You see?

And Fievel.

And Fievel?

Papa.

No, no, no, there are many Fievel

Mousekewitzes in New York.

Maybe thousands.

It could still be

another Fievel Mousekewitz.

No, Papa.

Look.

Get a load of this, huh.

Hey, kid,

you're sleeping in my place.

Huh?

Hey, give me that!

Got any food on you?

Hey, what's your story?

I've been looking for my family.

Hey, fellows, he's

looking for his family.

He's looking for his family!

I stopped that a long time ago.

At least you know who they are.

Yeah!

Why are you looking for them?

They should be looking for you.

They don't care.

Forget them.

You're right, they don't care!

And if they did,

they would have found me.

Well, if they don't care,

I don't care!

I don't care if I

never see them again.

Yeah, you're nothing.

You're junk, you're trash.

Here.

Make yourself a bed.

I'll never find them again anyway.

Never

This is my home now.

Fievel!

Fievel!

Fievel!

Fillie!

Hey, Fillie Mousekewitz!

I never dreamt this morning

I would be riding a feline.

A feline?

A cat!

I knew that. I knew that.

Keep playing. Keep playing.

We will find him.

Fievel!

Fievel!

Fievel, where are you?

Fievel?

Fievel?

Papa?

Papa?

Papa.

Fievel?

Papa!

Where are you?

Papa!

Fiev... Wait, stop!

Fievel!

I'm coming, Papa!

Fievel!

Papa!

Fievel.

Fievel!

Mama, look!

Mama!

What's come over me?

I am hugging a cat.

I've never been so

happy in my life.

I have friends,

lots of little tiny friends.

Oh, Tony, isn't it grand?

Say, I don't hear no

one thanking me here.

Oh!

Fievel, I knew

you were alive. I knew it!

Oh, my little boy

back from the dead.

America. Hmm.

What a place.

My Fievel.

I thought I would

never see you again.

Never say never, Papa.

Oh!

Oh! I nearly forgot.

Here, Fievel, your hat.

Your hat... It fits.

My son.

Now, you are a mouse.

My statue is finished.

Wait till you see her.

She is beautiful.

Magnifique.

Mama, look, don't be afraid

to open your eyes.

Look what you're missing.

You're missing everything.

Papa, when we land, I'll look.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

No, whoa!

This is... Oh, whoa, whoa!

Oh, oh, this is nice.

Oh, thanks, fellas.

I appreciate you coming back for me.

You in the front, higher, higher!

Whoa!

Oh, Henri, she's so beautiful.

Wow.

Henri, what's that over there?

Oh, that is more America.

Can we go see it?

You will, my little American.

Someday, you will.

Bye, bye.

Somewhere out there

Beneath the pale moonlight

Someone's

Thinking of me

And loving me

Tonight

Somewhere out there

Someone's saying a prayer

That we'll find one another

In that big somewhere

Out there

And even though I know

How very far apart we are

It helps to think

we might be wishing

On the same bright star

And when the night wind

Starts to sing

a lonesome lullaby

It helps to think

we're sleeping underneath

the same big sky

Somewhere out there

If love can see us through

Can see us through

Then we'll be

Together

Somewhere out there

Out where dreams

Come true

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Judy Freudberg

Judith Freudberg (July 12, 1949 – June 10, 2012) was an American TV writer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in speech and dramatic arts. In 1971, she started working on Sesame Street, two years after the show’s debut, as an assistant in the music department and became a writer for the children's television show in 1975. Judy worked on that show for 35 years and shared 17 daytime Emmys. One of the creators and developers of Elmo's World, she served as head writer for that popular segment. Freudberg collaborated with Tony Geiss on Sesame Street's first feature film, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird as well as The Land Before Time and An American Tail, two feature animation films directed by Don Bluth and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. She and Molly Boylan were nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special for the home video Elmo's World: Wild Wild West. For Sesame Street season 35, Judy co-wrote, with Lou Berger, the primetime special, Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On, which was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Children's Program. She died on June 10, 2012 in Manhattan at age 62 from complications of a brain tumor. more…

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