Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – An American Tail

A beloved family animated musical and cultural touchstone, this sweeping immigrant parable follows a family of Jewish mice driven from tsarist Russia to the promise of America, as predatory cats, a ready terror, loom. Separated during the voyage, brave little Fievel Mousekewitz wanders the unforgiving streets of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, set on reuniting with loved ones as danger and unexpected friendship collide. Producer Steven Spielberg and director Don Bluth channel immigrant longing and escape from persecution through hand-drawn imagery and high adventure, with voice performances by Phillip Glasser, Christopher Plummer, Madeline Kahn, and Dom DeLuise, crowned by the Grammy-winning anthem “Somewhere Out There” and distinguished as the highest-grossing non-Disney animated feature of its time.