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The Secret of NIMH
Directed by
Don Bluth
G
1982
82m
Family
,
Fantasy
,
and more
7.5
93%
86%
Rent for $3.99
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Cast of The Secret of NIMH
Elizabeth Hartman
Mrs. Brisby (voice)
Derek Jacobi
Nicodemus (voice)
Arthur Malet
Mr. Ages (voice)
Dom DeLuise
Jeremy (voice)
Hermione Baddeley
Auntie Shrew (voice)
Shannen Doherty
Teresa (voice)
Wil Wheaton
Martin (voice)
Jodi Hicks
Cynthia (voice)
Ina Fried
Timothy (voice)
John Carradine
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)
Joshua Lawrence
Billy Fitzgibbons (voice)
Philo Barnhart
Additional voices (uncredited)
The Secret of NIMH Ratings & Reviews
Heor0t
February 2, 2025
Pow, right in the childhood!
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Sadly, The Secret of NIMH is beautiful but unbalanced: The animators gambled when they should have gamboled.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
The animation is excellent, but I wonder about the overall tone of the film. It ends happily, but along the way there is so much reference to illness, tragedy, grief, pain and other depressing subjects that it bothered me.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
A sumptuous celebration of the animator's art... If it were not for E.T., this would easily be the best children's film released this year.
Orlando Sentinel
Sumner Rand
The Secret of NIMH should prove that there is still a market for an intelligently made, G-rated family movie.
New York Daily News
Rex Reed
Purely delicious, a perfect summer treat for the entire family, and finally a cartoon film that will not insult the intelligence of any child from 6 to 60.
Newsday
Alex Keneas
As they deliver NIMH's crisply written narrative, the drawing-board creations come to life. Papa Walt would have been pleased.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bob Lundegaard
[The animation], however, would be mere decoration, the frosting without the cake, if it didn't serve to enhance a strong, engrossing story line and vivid characters. And NIMH has an ample supply of both.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
Wonderfully effective in its animation, done in the classic, full-fashioned Disney style with richness, whimsy, loving detail and brilliantly used voices. But... it makes you wish the story line were more satisfactory.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
The art work is excellent. And, yes, I think adults, most of them anyway, will enjoy it just as much as the kids.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
As visually rewarding as it is, NIMH finds its real forte in the area of voice characterization. The actors speaking the lines were chosen with scrupulous care, and they're perfect.
Detroit Free Press
Jack Mathews
If The Secret of NIMH had been made in 1942 instead of 1982, the name would be swept along in that same wave of nostalgic good feeling as Pinocchio, Bambi, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Its animation is that good.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The Secret of NIMH is charming, but it could use a little bit more of Disney's bad guys versus good guy's mentality... And yet the second half of NIMH is a genuine pleasure, taking us to a secret rat world that should amaze little ones.
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
Don Bluth, a former Disney Studios animator, has created a sophisticated, visually stunning, dramatic feature that may very well end Disney's dominance of the animated feature film market.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
The picture is extremely well made and imaginative and its exquisite drawings ought to be real eye-openers for kids raised on Saturday morning dreck.
Newsweek
David Ansen
They've infused conservative style with new and bizarre energy. The result is slightly lunatic, and all the more fun for it.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Scott Cain
Oddly enough, Secret of NIMH may be more enjoyable for adults than for kiddies. Because of the intensity, the picture is definitely not recommended for anyone under six.
Arizona Republic
Michael Maza
The film's look is lush. Loaded with rich colors and painstaking backgrounds, "Secret" includes tons of fairy dust along with some impressive light effects. Even more important, the characters' motion is fluidly believable.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Don Bluth, who led an exodus of animators from Walt Disney Productions three years ago, has produced a feature in the Disney tradition: Full animation, spectacular effects, rounded characters.
Entertainment Weekly
Jeff Unger
Bluth and his animators, bless them, chose to revive an endangered art form -- classically detailed animation. They drew their characters exquisitely and gave them individual personalities.
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