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The Mouse and His Child
starring: Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, Andy Devine

Used Price: $29.99

Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300137172
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6300137171
Label: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Manufacturer: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Release Date: April 24, 1991
Running Time: 81 minutes
Studio: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Sales Rank: 15678

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A classic, timeless commentary on the human condition, for adults and children.
How to rate "A Mouse and His Child"? I first became aware of this film in the late 1970s, and actually took a female date to it. Imagine, taking a date to an animated film! It didn't pan out date-wise, but the film was and is astounding ... philosophically astute, almost heart-breaking, keen in its analysis of search and redemption, familial, paternal, and more. It's a commentary on unfettered capitalism, individualism, friendship, internecine (and inter-species) warfare and prejudice. And friendship.

Plot: A "mouse" (father) and "child" (son) are the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, which must be wound up by means of a key in the father's back. After having been unboxed, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. ("Papa, where ... Read More

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- Oh please put this on dvd...

I haven't seen this movie in ages but I never forgot it and neither has my daughter who was about 8 y/o at the time. And ever so often we still talk about it. She's now 26 and recently graduated from college.

It sparked many interesting discusions but of the things I loved besides the storyline was the music. I remember what I believed to be the main theme sung by a child. That and a few other instrumental tunes stuck with me over the years because of their beauty.

This would be one movie that I would have to get if it ever came out on dvd.

Rating:

- A truly heartwarming family film
The Mouse (voiced by Alan Barzman) and his Child (voiced by Marcy Swenson) are mechanical toys who embark on a moving and dramatic quest to become self-winding. It all starts when The Mouse and his Child are thrown into a rubbish heap and are found and then bound in slavery by the evil Emmanuel Wolfington `Manny' Rat III (voiced by Peter Ustinov). The desire to become key-free drives The Mouse to overcome his captor, and propels he and his Child on a series of strange adventures where they meet a frog, a parrot, and a seal. Based upon the novel by Russell Hoban.

Wonderful for adults and their children.

Staci Layne Wilson

Rating:

- I've been searching and have finally found........
I can't tell you if I have seen this movie more than once or how old I was ( young I know ). I just know that in the midst of tradjity this movie is one thing I have not forgotten. I don't know why it touched my young heart so as to make me remember it years and years latter to search it out. I haven't even recieved my copy yet, but feel compelled to write and reccomend it. I did not even remember the name of it and would ask everyone I knew if they remembered it only to hear I must have " Dreamed it " I spent hours looking and now I can not wait to revisit this movie again and again. There is more in this story than the superficial, it is deep and moving it is "human" in its constant attempt for knowledge and independance. I just hope it is not lost in the mass of ill forgotten, this movie truely ... Read More

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- A Lost Gem and Forgotten Masterpiece
Im afraid to watch this film again because it had such an impact on me as an eleven year old boy.The year was 1979 and it played sometime in the late winter or early spring.The HBO catalog used to have pictures of the movies playing back then and this one was definately in it. There are so many themes in this film I wont waste your time.It was so powerful for me back then that Im apprehensive about watching it now because I went through a bad time in my life recently with my health going sideways and I think the memories would come flooding back.If you want to see something highly unique and moving then see this film.Absolutely devoid of American sentimentality that permeates and ruins most "films" today.

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