An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

A family of Emigre mice decide to move out to the west, unaware that they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth talking cat.

• Director: * Phil Nibbelink
  
• Genre:Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Western
• Runtime:172 minutes

Cast

Phillip Glasser : Fievel (voice)
James Stewart : Wylie (voice)
Erica Yohn : Mama (voice)
Cathy Cavadini : Tanya (voice)
Nehemiah Persoff: Papa (voice)

Seven years after settling in to their new home in The Bronx, New York, the impoverished Mousekewitz family soon finds that conditions are not as ideal as they had hoped, as they find themselves still struggling against the attacks of mouse-hungry felines.

Fievel spends his days dreaming about the wild west dog-sheriff Wylie Burp, while his sister Tanya, dreams of becoming a singer. Meanwhile, Tiger’s girlfriend, Miss Kitty leaves him to find a new life out West, remarking that perhaps she’s looking for “a cat that’s more like a dog.”

Tired of chasing, Cat R. Waul devises a plan to deliver the mice into his clutches. Using a mouse-cowpoke marionette, he entices the neighborhood mice, including the Mousekewitzs into moving yet again to a better life out west (“Way Out West”). Tiger chases the train, trying to catch up with his friends, but is thrown off course by a pack of angry dogs.

While on the west-bound train, Fievel wanders into the livestock car, where he overhears the cats revealing their plot to turn them into “mouse burgers.” After being discovered, Fievel is thrown from the train by Cat R. Waul’s hench-spider, T.R. Chula, landing the mouse in the middle of the desert. The Mousekewitzes are heartbroken once again over the loss of Fievel and arrive at Green River with heavy hearts.

Upon arrival at Green River, Chula blocks up the water tower, drying up the river. Cat R. Waul approaches the mice and proposes to build a new saloon together, although intending to trick the mice into doing the bulk of the work and then eat them afterwards.

Meanwhile, Fievel is wandering aimlessly through the desert, as is Tiger, who has found his way out west as well, and the two pass each other. However, each one figures that the other is a mirage and they continue on their separate ways. Tiger is captured by mouse Indians and hailed as a god. Fievel is picked up by a hawk and dropped over the mouse Indian village and reunites with Tiger. Tiger chooses to stay in while Fievel catches a passing tumbleweed, which takes him to Green River. As soon as Fievel makes his arrival, he quickly reunites with his family. He then tries to expose Cat R. Waul’s true intentions. However, no one will believe him. In fact, as Cat R. Waul searches for entertainment for the saloon, he happens to hear Tanya, Fievel’s older sister, singing while working and is enchanted by her voice (“Dreams to Dream”). Read more

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