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THE SECRET OF NIMH

Feeling constrained by the rigors of the Walt Disney Company, animator Don Bluth led a team of colleagues away to form their own production company. After a string of successful shorts, the team successfully broke into features with THE SECRET OF NIMH, an adaptation of Robert C. OBriens dark childrens fantasy Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH a story once pitched to Disney but denied.

The film follows a widowed field mouse named Mrs. Brisby (changed to not have to deal with Frisbee™), whose youngest son falls ill just before the start of the farmers annual plow. Unable to move her son from harms way, Mrs. Brisby seeks help from the mysterious Rats of NIMH, a clannish and strife-laden bunch, who possess technology that could save her family. THE SECRET OF NIMH is a dark and beautiful piece of childrens entertainment that continues to haunt the memories of anyone who encountered it at an impressionable age.