The Secret of N-I-M-H

Original title: The Secret of NIMH

1982
U
1h 22m

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7.5/10

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Animal Adventure Dark Fantasy Adventure Animation Drama Family Fantasy Mystery Sci-Fi

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.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.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.

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IMDb RATING

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47K

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POPULARITY

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

Jeremy
(voice)

Arthur Malet

Mr. Ages
(voice)

Hermione Baddeley

Auntie Shrew
(voice)

Shannen Doherty

Teresa
(voice)

Wil Wheaton

Martin
(voice)

Jodi Hicks

Cynthia
(voice)

Ian Fried

Timothy
(voice)

John Carradine

The Great Owl
(voice)

Peter Strauss

Justin
(voice)

Paul Shenar

Jenner
(voice)

Tom Hatten

Farmer Fitzgibbons
(voice)

Lucille Bliss

Mrs. Fitzgibbons
(voice)

Aldo Ray

Sullivan
(voice)

Norbert Auerbach

Councilman 1
(voice)

Dick Kleiner

Councilman 2
(voice)

Charles Champlin

Councilman 3
(voice)

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Trivia
Don Bluth, John Pomeroy and Gary Goldman all left Disney to pursue this project, which had originally been rejected by their former employer as "too dark" to be a commercial success. They were followed soon after by twenty other Walt Disney Productions animators, dubbed "The Disney Defectors" by the trade press.

Goofs
Dragon's bad eye switches from his right to his left throughout.

Quotes
Jenner: I learned this much, take what you can when you can.
Justin: Then you've learned nothing.

Crazy credits
The production storyboards are used for background in the end credits.

Alternate versions
In the late 1990s VHS and DVD prints in addition to the 2003 reissue of the DVD release, the United Artists logo is plastered with the 1994 variant.

Connections
Edited into An American Tail (1986)

Soundtracks
Flying Dreams
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Lyrics Written and Performed by Paul Williams
Orchestrations: Arthur Morton
Arranged by Ian Fraser
Lullaby Performed by Sally Stevens

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Featured review

One of the best

See this movie. It has some of the most intense sequences in an animated film that I've ever seen. I remember this one from way back and I remember watching it every chance I had. And who can forget that one line, "Take what you can.... when you can!"