The Secret of NIMH
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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.
- Director
- Don Bluth
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $15M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
15 billed performers
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Movie DNA
How The Secret of NIMH actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Secret of NIMH returned 2.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $15M
- Release date
- Jun 17, 1982
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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