In “An American Tail,” five background artists created more than 800 background paintings. The completed film uses more than 1 million drawings and more than 100,000 hand-painted cels.

Don Bluth's An American Tail introduced the world to the mouse Fievel Mousekewitz and his family in 1986. I grew up with great affection for Fievel, but it actually wasn't the original Bluth film ...

Spielberg has a stronger script sense than the man most responsible for ”An American Tail,” director Don Bluth, a Disney animation renegade, who seems to care more about pictures here than story.

An American Tail told the story of Fievel and the Mousekewitz family as they journey to 19th century New York to discover the American Dream. It's an animated classic about cartoon mice that both ...

Dinosaurs have been good to Don Bluth, as have immigrant mice (An American Tail) and, he hopes, rascally dogs, the subject of his new $13 million feature, All Dogs Go to Heaven, a lively meld of ...

Move over Mickey, America has discovered an even more lovable animated mouse. His name is Fievel Mousekewitz, the star of the first animated film by Steven Spielberg, An American Tail. The year is ...