RELEASED OUT NOW! 1982 | U | Blu-ray Director Don Bluth
Cast
Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Derek Jacobi, Paul Shenar
BLU-RAY DEBUT After Walt Disney’s death in 1966, animator Don Bluth saw quality in his Disney workplace fall off a cliff, with beauty and creativity sacrificed to save money. Annoyed, he quit to set up his own animation company. This film was its first offering, and a jolly good debut it is, too.
Adapted from Robert C O’Brien’s 1971 children’s book Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, it’s the story of a mouse named Mrs Brisby (her name was changed here to avoid baiting the owners of the Frisbee). When her son falls sick, she must ask a peculiar colony of rats to help move her house before it ends up under a plough. The rats’ secret? They have super-intelligence after escaping from a human laboratory.