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The Land Before Time
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The Secret of NIMH
Directed by Don Bluth
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground. From TMDB
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| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 adventure animation family film, directed by Don Bluth, starring Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi and Arthur Malet.
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- posts span Nov 26, 2017 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 224 · most liked firstVincent Canby's 1982 review of The Secret of NIMH for the NYTimes contains perhaps the first usage of the phrase "mouse-mom"
neutral · AI labelView post →You wanna see an older animated film that imho is worth watching that’s not Disney? May I suggest for your viewing pleasure The Last Unicorn and The Secret of Nimh.
positive · AI labelView post →Here are some storyboards from The Secret of NIMH drawn by Don Bluth himself. I know he's gone on record and stated this is the film he's most proud of and I agree. It's still one of the finest animated films ever put to screen.
positive · AI labelView post →Don Bluth also did The Land Before Time, the movie about orphan baby dinosaurs and one scary T. Rex; and The Secret of NIMH, whose plot about a widowed mother trying to help her kid survive pneumonia will even traumatize the parents!
neutral · AI labelView post →“Courage of the Heart is very Rate” Forever making Art inspired by The Secret Of NIMH animated movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Hand painted Nicodemus from a childhood movie fav: The Secret of NIMH.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ANIMATED movie title that begins with the letter “S” 🎥 S is for… ‘The Secret Of NIMH’ (1982) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I think a lot about the time I was told in a pitch “we aren’t interested in making cult classics” and it was laid out for me that if you put the movie Free Birds next to the Secret of Nimh, an executive would always rather make Free Birds, because Numbers This Quarter always beat enduring art.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd like to submit The Secret of NIMH and The Dark Crystal for inclusion in the traumatic childhood movie bracket. Between tiny mice drowning in their own home and draining the life force of scared little puppets, they both left a hell of a scorch mark.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching the Secret of NIMH for the first time ona Discord VC watch party. :b Don Bluth's first true film that earned him his name in the medium of animation. #nowwatching
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh (1971) by Robert O'Brien was adapted to film by Don Bluth as The Secret of Nimh (1982). The animated film adds tension, "magic" (as the book is science focused), & a simpler motive for the Rat society's desire for independence. 🐀🧪✨ #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982), an animated dark fantasy film in which a widowed mouse's quest to find medicine for her sick son leads to her encountering a colony of tunic-wearing rats. I was 9 when the film came out, but somehow this is my 1st time watching it. Directed by Don Bluth
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like already having seen stuff like Watership Down, The Dark Crystal and The Secret of Nimh preconditioned me as a child to accept the death, loss and destruction seen in the transformers movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don Bluth's animated movie "The Secret of NIMH" premiered on July 2, 1982.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (and the movie adaptation The Secret of Nimh) starts off like any children's tale: talking animals, cozy cottages, and epic quests. But Robert C O'Brien's novel takes an unexpected science fiction twist...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 88th birthday to Derek Jacobi. I grew up with his voice as one of the kindest but spookiest animated characters, in a movie my cousin and I adored. I only learned it was him in the past two years: Nicodemus from The Secret of NIMH.
positive · AI labelView post →The Secret of Nimh was the movie that prompted 5-year-old Jay to inform his religious parents that prayers and spells were pretty much the same thing. Lol, can’t imagine raising me..
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SECRET OF NIMH WAS A GOTDAMN HORROR MOVIE!!!
negative · AI labelView post →Everything by Don Bluth. Literally everything his name on is childhood gold. Sometimes a little scary, but in a modern fairy tale sort of way. An American Tale All dogs go to Heaven The Secret of NIMH The Fox and the Hound The Land Before Time His movies never treated children like fools, a sentiment that's only recently becoming the standard for children's entertainment and he was doing it in the 80s.
positive · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One Book 📚 One Movie 🎥 One Album 💿 One TV Show 📺 📚 Something Wicked This Way Comes 🎥 The Secret of Nimh 💿 Portishead Roseland NYC Live 📺 Mystery Science Theater 3000
neutral · AI labelView post →QP with a movie that makes you cry every time The Secret of NIMH
neutral · AI labelView post →My #LastFourWatched -The Wicker Man (1973). Fantastic horror film with a great soundtrack. Love Christopher Lee. 🎶🍎🐇 -The Secret of NIMH (1982). One of the best animated films ever. 🐀🐁🐦⬛ -Chicago (2002). One of my favorite musicals and films. ❤️🎶💃 -A Cat in Paris (2010). Wonderful animated film 🐈⬛
positive · AI labelView post →Gf: can we watch a horror movie? Me: sure -puts on The Secret of NIMH-
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of NIMH. (Absolutely terrifying, and I'd also had the book read to me and loved it and the movie is only in the loosest sense related to it.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Drawn in 1993, 3 years before I discovered furry fandom! The movie "The Secret of NIMH" is the whole reason I'm here! Thanks to that movie, I have a lifelong love of animation and anthropomorphic animals! 😁 #FurryArt
positive · AI labelView post →First one that comes to mind is Nicodemus getting crushed to death by a giant cinder block in The Secret of NIMH. Although really that whole movie felt very traumatic.
negative · AI labelView post →Post a movie that starts with the word THE The Secret of NIMH 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your favourite animated film? 🎥🖤 The Secret of Nimh, hands down.
positive · AI labelView post →I believe kids deserve great art, so adults coming in droves to unabashedly love AI slop is just sad. “It is a kids movie, so it can be absolutely garbage.” Spider-Man 2 is a kids film. The Secret of NIMH, Holes, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading how scientists have created lab mice whose brains are filled with millions of human neurons and all I can think about is the 1980s film THE SECRET OF NIMH about the intelligent rodents who escape their lab anybody else remember that animated film?!
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 1980s - The Secret of NIMH 1990s - The Nightmare Before Christmas 2000s - O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2010s - Mad Max: Fury Road 2020s - Everything Everywhere All at Once
positive · AI labelView post →what film most reminds you of your childhood?✨ For me it’s “The Secret of NIMH,” “The Princess Bride” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” I was a very lucky kid.
positive · AI labelView post →Right?!?! The Secret of Nimh...The Hobbit. The Transformers Movie....need I go on?!?
neutral · AI labelView post →Incredible praise for this film: “It will be someone’s The Secret of NIMH or Watership Down. Someone’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It may be better than all of those.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep trying to think of one, but the last film that scared me at all was The Secret of Nimh, and that was only scary because I was a small child at the time it came out - I don't think I've ever seen any truly scary film, and I say that as someone who watches quite a bit of horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fave film adaptation of a book. The Secret of NIMH
neutral · AI labelView post →That guy's experiments were the inspiration for the Rats of NIMH books, which led to The Secret of NIMH movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is Don Bluth's birthday, so I drew and coloured Mrs. Brisby in my style. She is one of the mice from The Secret of NIMH, a memorable animated film from 1982. No copyright infringement intended. #fanartfriday
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't much remember it, but my mom was pretty freaked out by how scared I was by the Care Bears movie. There are scarier early 80s classics (The Last Unicorn, the Secret of NIMH) but I just loved them to pieces. assigned goth at birth I guess
positive · AI labelView post →A few days ago I watched The Secret of NIMH for the first time and I think it's the best animated movie I ever watched, too bad I haven't watched it when I was little, only All Dogs Go to Heaven.
positive · AI labelView post →THE SECRET OF NIMH might have been my first special interest, come to think on it; I watched the movie until the tape wore out, and read the book until the spine died
positive · AI labelView post →This Movie Monday is Don Bluth's 1982 animated action adventure classic The Secret of NIMH. #fantasy #film #review #mausritter open.spotify.com/episode/6HMr...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched THE SECRET OF NIMH the other night (I’m going through a lot of movies I haven’t watched since I was a kid). What a beautiful, weird movie. Scared the crap out of me as a kid … and for good reason!
positive · AI labelView post →28) What's your favorite movie? I got into art and drawing (and furry) because of "The Secret of NIMH"!
positive · AI labelView post →also to be fair to Tron: they pushed its release from christmas up to july to compete with ET, Star Trek II (Kahn), Blade Runner & Poltergeist, and the Secret of NIMH (the film they pushed to try and compete with).
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's not jump to conclusions, he could have been referring to the 1982 animated film THE SECRET OF NIMH.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1980s 1980: Empire Strikes Back 1981: Excalibur 1982: The Secret of NIMH 1983: Wargames 1984: The Neverending Story 1985: The Goonies 1986: Labyrinth 1987: Moonstruck 1988: Who framed Roger rabbit 1989: Dead Poets Society this list was fucking hard 😞😫
positive · AI labelView post →The Secret of NIMH!!! This movie was intense when I was a kid, and one of my nostalgic faves as an adult.
positive · AI labelView post →Does anyone remember when Jonathan the rat said "Damn" in The Secret of Nimh? It felt like watching a real grown up movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation Day 12: Cartoons! Film #2: The Secret of Nimh (1982) @fthismovie.bsky.social Trailer: youtu.be/W4xHs01SUA4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone’s talking about what film traumatized them as a kid but no one is mentioning THE SECRET OF NIMH because y’all are too traumatized to type it out
neutral · AI labelView post →I contributed a video essay about motherhood to the Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray for The Secret of NIMH, which is released today! Thanks @craigimann.bsky.social for bringing me on board. eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/the-se...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret of NIMH is such a gorgeous and atmospheric film! Rewatched it recently and maaaan, Bluth and his team really made something genuinely beautiful! Also, Mrs. Brisby is one of the greatest mom characters in media ever. 💗
positive · AI labelView post →There is one thing that I believed when I was 5 that holds true to this day: The Secret of NIMH is the greatest animated film ever made.
positive · AI labelView post →On July 2, 1984, MGM released a film based on a book Robert C. O’ Brian that stood out from the rest. Directed by former Disney animators Don Bluth and co-written by Gary Goldman, this film was a testament to beautiful animation and incredible storytelling! The Secret of NIMH! #secretofnimh
neutral · AI labelView post →I have no idea how I had never heard of Redwall until last year when Magic's Bloomburrow set released. I grew up watching the Secret of NIMH, reading the comic, Redwall should have been the next logical step... but I missed it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Delighted to have contributed to this wonderful Blu-ray of Don Bluth’s The Secret of Nimh, released as part of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series. Been a fan of the film for years. Nice to see it feeling the love. Also features contributions from @cinefeline.bsky.social & @drsamsummers.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →The Secret of NIMH [1982] Y'know what would be REALLY fucked up? If your first movie was an animated masterpiece that you would never live up to again. I think that would be scuffed beyond measure if you accidentally opened your independent career with an insurmountable classic of the medium.
positive · AI labelView post →The Secret of NIMH great owl scared tf out of me as a kid, and he's like the 12th scariest thing in that movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hahahaha, something I will *never* do is let young kids watch *The Brave Little Toaster* or *The Secret of NIMH*. Awesome movies. Timeless stories. Terrifying as fuck. Pure Nitrous Nightmare Fuel. Maybe when they're 13 and have a nurturing adult with whom to watch.
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