Elizabeth Hartman
Mrs. Brisby
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The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 American animated fantasy adventure film directed by Don Bluth in his directorial debut and based on Robert C. O'Brien's 1971 children's novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
- IT WAS MADE BY FORMER DISNEY ANIMATORS WHO WENT ROGUE. In 1979, while Disney was in the middle of production on The Fox and the Hound, animators Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, and Gary Goldman left the company, joined by a handful of other members of the animation staff.
- THE FILMMAKERS WORKED FASTER AND CHEAPER THAN THEY HAD AT DISNEY. Disney's The Fox and the Hound cost $12 million. The Black Cauldron, released in 1985, would cost $44 million.
- A TOY COMPANY MADE THEM CHANGE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S NAME. The 1971 novel from which the book was adapted is called Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The title was shortened for the movie, and Frisby—which is pronounced like "Frisbee"—was changed to Brisby to avoid trademark problems with Wham-O, the company that makes America's favorite flying disk.
- DISNEY TURNED THE BOOK DOWN. According to writer/producer Gary Goldman, animator Ken Anderson first took the book to Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, Disney's chief animator.
A very old, kind and wise leader, he tells Mrs Brisby the rats' history: they were all lab animals imprisoned in NIMH, the National Institutes of Mental Health. Injected with experimental compounds, the rats developed intelligent brains and were able to escape their cages, along with several mice.
The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 film directed by Don Bluth based on the novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Mrs. Brisby, a timid widowed field mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children in a field on the Fitzgibbons' farm. She prepares to move her family out of the field as plowing time...
The Secret of NIMH: Directed by Don Bluth. With Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise. To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
- Don Bluth
- 2 min
“The Secret of Nimh” contains that absolute rarity among feature-length animated cartoons, an interesting premise. It is: What if a group of laboratory animals were injected with an experimental drug that made them as intelligent as humans?
The Secret of NIMH seeks to resurrect the classical style of American animation and succeeds, telling a mature story with rapturous presentation. Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth...
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- Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
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