Fievel Mousekewitz

An American Tail
Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan
Directed by	Don Bluth
Produced by	Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy
Screenplay by	Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss
Story by	David Kirschner Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss
Starring	Dom DeLuise John Finnegan Phillip Glasser Madeline Kahn Pat Musick Nehemiah Persoff Christopher Plummer Neil Ross Will Ryan Hal Smith Erica Yohn
Music by	James Horner
Cinematography	Bill Butler (uncredited)
Edited by	Dan Molina
Production companies	Amblin Entertainment Sullivan Bluth Studios
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	November 21, 1986 (1986-11-21)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9 million
Box office	$84 million

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An American Tail is a 1986 American animated musical adventure drama film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment. It tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from Russia to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them. It was released on November 21, 1986, to reviews that ranged from positive to mixed and was a box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at the time. The success of it, The Land Before Time, and Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as Bluth's departure from their partnership, prompted Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio, Amblimation, which would later become DreamWorks Animation after several of Amblimation's films weren't as successful as Spielberg had hoped. The company was acquired by Universal's parent company NBCUniversal for $3.8 billion in April 2016.

In 1885, Shostka, Russia, the Mousekewitzes, a Russian-Jewish family of mice who live with a human family named Moskowitz, are having a celebration of Hanukkah where Papa gives his hat to his son, Fievel, and tells of a wonderful place called America, where there are no cats. The celebration is interrupted when a battery of Cossacks ride through the village square in an arson attack and their cats likewise attack the village mice. Because of this, the Moskowitz home, along with that of the Mousekewitzes, is destroyed.