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e voices of cathianne blore dom deluise john finnegan phillip glasser amy green madeline kahn pat musick nehemiah persoff christopher plummer neil ross will ryan hal smith and erica yohn set in the late 19th century the story follows the mousekewitzes a family of russian jewish mice emigrating from the russian empire to the united states for freedom fievel the youngest of the mousekewitz family gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them production on an american tail commenced in december 1984 and was originally conceived as a television special executive producer steven spielberg felt it had potential as a feature film and asked bluth to make him something pretty like he did in nimh the film was animated at sullivan bluth studios with james horner composing the film s score and writing original songs an american tail was theatrically released in the united states on november 21 1986 by universal pictures it received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial success grossing 85 million worldwide on a 9 million budget the success spawned a franchise including a theatrical sequel a television series and two sequels released on home video plot edit in 1885 shostka russian empire the mousekewitzes are a russian jewish family of mice who live with a human family named moskowitz while celebrating hanukkah papa gives his kashket to his son fievel and tells him about the united states a country in which he believes there are no cats the celebration is interrupted when a battery of cossacks ride through the village square in an anti semitic arson attack and their cats attack the village mice the moskowitz home along with that of the mousekewitzes is destroyed while fievel narrowly escapes from the cats they flee the village in search of a better life in hamburg germany the mousekewitzes board a tramp steamer setting sail for new york city all the mice aboard are ecstatic at the prospect of going to america believing that there are no cats there during a thunderstorm on their journey fievel finds himself separated from his family and washed overboard thinking that he has died they proceed to the city as planned though they become depressed at his loss however fievel floats to new york in a bottle and after a pep talk from a french pigeon named henri decides to look for his family he encounters conman warren t rat who sells him to a sweatshop he escapes with tony toponi a street smart italian mouse and they join up with bridget an irish mouse trying to rouse her fellow mice to fight the cats when a cat gang called the mott street maulers attacks a mouse marketplace the immigrant mice learn that the tales of a cat free country are not true and that warren t rat is demanding payment for protection from them bridget takes fievel and tony to see honest john an alcoholic politician who knows the city s voting mice however he is unable to help fievel search for his family as they have not yet registered to vote led by the rich gussie mausheimer the mice hold a rally to decide what to do about the cats warren is extorting them all for protection that he never provides no one knows what to do about it until fievel whispers a plan to gussie although his family also attends they stand well in the back of the audience and they are unable to recognize fievel onstage with her the mice take over an abandoned museum on the chelsea piers and begin constructing their plan on the day of launch fievel gets lost and stumbles upon warren s lair he discovers that he is actually a cat in disguise and the leader of the maulers they capture and imprison fievel but his guard is a reluctant member of the gang a vegetarian tabby cat named tiger who becomes friends and frees him fievel races back to the pier with the cats chasing after him and exposes warren as a cat when gussie orders the mice to release the secret weapon a huge mechanical mouse inspired by the bedtime tales papa told fievel of the giant mouse of minsk chases warren and his gang down the pier and into the water a tramp steamer bound for hong kong picks them up on its anchor and carries them away however a pile of leaking kerosene cans has caused a torch lying on the ground to ignite the pier and the mice are forced to flee when the fire department arrives to extinguish it during the fire fievel is once again separated from his family and ends up at an orphanage in an alley papa and tanya overhear bridget and tony calling out to fievel papa is sure that there is another fievel somewhere until mama finds his hat joined by gussie tiger allows them to ride him this allows them to find fievel papa returns fievel s hat commenting that it now fits him and he has grown up into a mouse henri ends the journey by taking everyone to see his newly completed project the statue of liberty which appears to smile and wink at fievel and tanya and the mouskewitzes new life in the united states begins voice cast edit phillip glasser as fievel mousekewitz while fievel is a generally accepted spelling of his name and appears as such in the end credits the opening credits spell it as feivel the more common transliteration 6 7 of the yiddish name פֿײַװל fayvl cf shraga feivel mendlowitz and feivel gruberger the main protagonist he is the only son of papa and mama mousekewitz a high spirited daring yet naïve baby mouse fievel becomes a frightened child when he is separated from his family the strength and the encouragement from his new american friends from henri to tony and bridget give him the fortitude to reach his goal in reuniting with his family while starting a new life in america feivel was the name of steven spielberg s grandfather whose stories as an immigrant influenced the film however many english speaking writers have come to adopt the spelling fievel especially for this character this spelling was used on the film s poster in promotional materials and tie in merchandise and in the title of the sequel an american tail fievel goes west his last name is a play on the russian jewish last name moskowitz the name of the human occupants of the house his family is living under at the beginning of the film john finnegan as warren t rat a small havana brown who disguises himself as a giant rat he is the leader of the mott street maulers an all cat gang which terrorizes the mice of new york city conniving and a schemer he misleads the impressionable fievel at one point later on he gets his comeuppance when fievel discovers and later exposes him as a cat to the mouse community he is accompanied everywhere by his accountant digit a small english accented cockroach amy green as tanya mousekewitz singing voice provided by betsy cathcart fievel s older sister whom he mutually adores optimistic and cheerful less daring but more obedient than her brother she alone believes correctly that he survived being washed overboard en route to the united states she is given the american name tillie at the immigration point at castle garden nehemiah persoff as papa mousekewitz the head of the mousekewitz family who plays the violin and tells stories to his children erica yohn as mama mousekewitz fievel s mother countering papa s dreamy idealism she is a level headed pragmatist besides being stricter with their offspring than he is she also has a fear of flying pat musick as tony toponi a streetwise teenage mouse of italian descent his tough guy attitude suits his new york surroundings the name toponi is a play on topo the italian word for mouse he hits it off with fievel acting as a surrogate big brother to the younger mouse whom he calls fillie in a subplot he falls in love with bridget dom deluise as tiger the most physically imposing member of the mott street maulers for whom he serves as an enforcer and often is the brunt of their cruel jokes although not especially intelligent tiger is very friendly and his warm nature endears him to mice and birds he is mostly vegetarian aside from the occasional bit of fish tiger becomes fievel s best friend he enjoys card games like poker and gin rummy despite being terrible at them christopher plummer as henri le pigeon a pigeon of french descent who oversees construction of the statue of liberty cathianne blore as bridget an attractive elegant irish born mouse and tony s love interest her parents were slain and devoured by the mott street maulers making her an advocate in speaking out against the cats kind passionate yet soft spoken she acts as a surrogate big sister to fievel neil ross as honest john a local irish born mouse politician who knows every voting mouse in new york city an ambulance chasing drunkard he takes advantage of voters concerns to increase his political prestige john is a caricature of real life tammany hall boss john kelly also nicknamed honest john and other 19th century new york city politicians madeline kahn as gussie mausheimer a german born mouse considered the richest in new york city who rallies the mice into fighting back against the cats despite being against cats she later accepts tiger for helping reunite fievel with his family will ryan as digit warren s british cockroach accountant who has a fondness for counting money but is plagued by frequent electrical charges in his antennae whenever he gets nervous or excited hal smith as moe a fat rat who runs the local sweatshop fievel is sold to him by warren dan kuenster as jake warren s burly aide de camp among the mott street maulers he alone enjoys listening to his leader s violin music jake catches fievel after a chase through the sewers after tiger takes pity on fievel and sets him free jake and his fellow maulers pursue the young mouse to the chelsea pier only to face the giant mouse of minsk production edit development edit executive producer steven spielberg in 2017 production began in december 1984 as a collaboration between spielberg bluth and universal based on a concept by david kirschner originally the idea was conceived as a television special but spielberg felt it had potential as a feature film 8 spielberg had asked bluth to make me something pretty like you did in nimh make it beautiful in a 1985 interview he described his role in the production as first in the area of story inventing incidents for the script and now consists of looking every three weeks to a month at the storyboards that bluth sends me and making my comments bluth later commented that steven has not dominated the creative growth of tail at all there is an equal share of both of us in the picture nevertheless this was spielberg s first animated feature and it took some time for him to learn that adding a two minute scene would take dozens of people months of work in 1985 he stated at this point i m enlightened but i still can t believe it s so complicated 9 it was universal s third animated film and also the first animated feature film since pinocchio in outer space in 1965 and the first animated film that they co produced writing edit originally the concept consisted of an all animal world like disney s robin hood but bluth suggested featuring an animal world existing as a hidden society from the human world like his own nimh and disney s the rescuers after viewing the rescuers spielberg agreed emmy award winning writers judy freudberg and tony geiss known for their work on sesame street were brought in to expand the script when the initial script was complete it was extremely long and was heavily edited before its final release bluth felt uncomfortable with the main character s name thinking fievel was too foreign sounding and he felt audiences wouldn t remember it 10 spielberg disagreed the character was named after his maternal grandfather philip posner whose yiddish name was fievel the scene in which he presses up against a window to look into a classroom filled with american school mice is based on a story spielberg remembered about his grandfather who told him that jews were only able to listen to lessons through open windows while sitting outside in the snow 11 spielberg eventually won out though something of a compromise was reached by having tony refer to fievel as filly 10 spielberg also had some material cut that he felt was too intense for children including a scene bluth was developing revolving around wave monsters while the family was at sea 12 casting edit bluth described the process of voice casting as sometimes you can select a name voice i e a well known actor because it fits the essence of the character so well other times you need to seek an obscure voice close your eyes and just listen to it if it has the highs and lows in the deliverance of lines and it captures the focus of the character it allows the animators to get a true fix on the action 13 glasser fievel was discovered by accident when bluth and his crew overheard him auditioning for an oscar mayer commercial 13 green tanya mousekewitz was a young actress who had done some previous television series work and several commercials 13 persoff a respected actor in many films was chosen to play the part of papa mousekewitz mostly because he had a similar role as barbra streisand s father in yentl 13 yohn mama mousekewitz has appeared in many features but her work as a russian rom on a tv show attracted the attention of bluth and john pomeroy 13 finnegan won the role of warren t rat by reciting excerpts of shakespeare s hamlet in the voice of a brooklyn taxi driver this idea inspired the writers to make warren a pretentious illiterate who continually misquoted shakespeare 13 musick tony toponi based tony s voice on a friend she knew from grade school 13 deluise tiger had worked previously with bluth in the secret of nimh and deluise even added material to the script at various points during the song a duo he suggested they stop the music where the lyrics mention back scratch and have fievel actually scratch tiger s back 13 henri was originally to be voiced by comedian sid caesar and was conceived as scraggly and worn but later plummer was cast for the part and henri was drawn with a more dignified look bluth felt henri was an essential character to act as a voice for the statue welcoming fievel to the new world 10 kahn was chosen to play the part of gussie mausheimer with the hopes that she would use a voice similar to the one she used as a character in mel brooks blazing saddles with the character being written as german american for such 10 will ryan digit neil ross honest john cathianne blore bridget and hal smith moe are all voice actors well known in the animation industry 13 design edit in designing the look of the film and its characters bluth worked with amblin entertainment and the sears marketing department sears had a major marketing push on the main character he decided to make a stylistic shift from the more angular modern style of animation of the time to a style similar to disney animation from the 1940s where the characters have a softer and cuddlier feel this proved successful and at release many critics praised ...
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