Where does Fievel Goes West take place?

New York City
Two years after arriving in New York City from Russia, plucky Fievel Mousekewitz (voice by Phillip Glasser) and the rest of his family–Mama (Erica Yohn), Papa (Nehemiah Persoff), Tanya (Cathy Cavadini) and baby sister–have discovered the streets in America are not “paved with cheese” as they had imagined.

Is Fievel Goes West Disney?

Fievel Goes West was promoted with a wide array of tie-ins and started in the top ten at the box office. The film grossed $22 million in the US. Some film journalists and executives attributed this to having to compete with the Disney film….

Is Fievel Goes West a sequel?

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West/Sequels

What year did Fievel Goes West come out?

November 22, 1991 (USA)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West/Release date

Who is the voice of Tiger in An American Tail?

Dom DeLuiseFievel’s American Tails
Tiger/Voiced by

Did Disney make An American Tail?

The film was released in the United States on November 21, 1986, by Universal Pictures, four months after Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective was released. It received mixed-to-positive reviews and was a box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at the time.

How long is an American Tail?

1h 20m
An American Tail/Running time

What do cats represent in An American Tail?

In the film, cats play the role of the persecutors and they represent persecution as a whole. In contrast, mice are pictured as the persecuted. For example, it is narrated that Papa Mousekewitz, a Russian Jew, lost his father in a cat attack. However, he never specifies if the cats in question were Cossacks or not.

What was the name of the cat in American Tail?

Cat R. Waul
Cat R. Waul is the main antagonist in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, voiced by former Monty Python member John Cleese in his first voice-acting role. He is an evil cat and the leader of the Cactus Cat Gang. Waul is a cat of wealth and class, who loves to eat mice, and dislikes humans, especially his buxom owner.

How accurate is An American Tail?

Fievel Ends Up In A Sweatshop But An American Tail turns the spotlight back on America, coercing viewers to contend with the fact America also had several sweatshops. It’s a disconcerting aspect to highlight in a kid’s movie, but it’s historically accurate.

What happened to the baby in American Tail?

Well, after the first half of the film the baby completely disappears from the movie and at the end of the film there are only four family members. Making this more problematic is that the baby returns in the sequel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

What is the meaning behind An American Tail?

An American Tail and Maus[edit] An American Tail is an allegory, similar to Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus, for the terrible conditions immigrants to the United States faced at the turn of the century. Like in Maus, the mice represent the Jewish immigrants, and the cats their anti-Semitic tormentors.

When was an American Tail Fievel Goes West made?

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is a 1991 animated film. This article is a stub. You can help Transcripts Wiki by expanding it. *The movie begins as we see a place of the old west called Texas, then we see the title “An Americam Tail: Fievel Goes West”.

Who is the director of an American Tail goes west?

From filmmaker Steven Spielberg, ‘AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST’ is a delightful full-length animated feature that continues the adventures of the brave young mouse who captured audiences hearts everywhere.

Why does Fievel fall on the floor in an American Tail?

(The entire Mousekewitz home shakes, caused by an elevated passenger train rumbling above the New York streets. The Mousekewitzes are affected by the shaking as Fievel falls on the floor and the candlelight goes out, darkening the house and the screen.

Where do Tiger, Wylie and Fievel go in an American Tail?

They go back to Green River to fight the cats, who attempt to kill the mice at sunset during the opening of Cat R. Waul’s saloon using a concealed giant mouse trap. Tiger, Wylie and Fievel intervene and battle the cats, during which Miss Kitty and Tanya discover the trap.