Trailer for the Newly Restored Classic 1982 Animated Fantasy Film THE SECRET OF NIMH
Eureka Video has released a trailer for their restored Blu-ray release of of the classic 1982 Don Bluth-directed film The Secret of NIMH.
The film is based on Robert C. O'Brien's popular children's book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and Bluth made the movie shortly after he left Walt Disney Productions in 1979 to launch his own company, Don Bluth Productions. The Secret of NIMH was the company’s first feature film.
I love this movie. It’s such a beautifully crafted animated movie, the story of which follows a field mouse named Mrs Brisby who must seek the aid of a colony of rats to save her ill son.
She learns that she has a deeper link to this colony of rats than she suspected. The movie is described as a “sweeping fantasy epic made with astoundingly beautiful cel animation.”
The widowed Mrs Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman), a field mouse, lives with her children in a cinderblock on the rural Fitzgibbon farm – although not for much longer. With harvest season approaching, she must move her family before their home is destroyed by the farmer's plough.
But her son, Timothy (Ina Fried), has fallen ill and can't be moved. In desperate need of help, Mrs Brisby pays a visit to the Great Owl (John Carradine), who in turn introduces her to Nicodemus (Derek Jacobi): the wise leader of a rat colony living beneath a rose bush on the Fitzgibbon property.
The rats are technologically advanced and possess vast intelligence due to their connection to a mysterious place they call NIMH, and agree to help Mrs Brisby due to a cherished friendship with her late husband.
But not all the rats are so kind, and the power-hungry Jenner (Paul Shenar) has a vested interest in making sure that Mrs Brisby & her mouse family stay put...
Eureka Video will release this restored version of the film on Blu-ray in December 2024 as part of "The Masters of Cinema Series", in a Limited edition of 2000 copies exclusively featuring an O-card slipcase.
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