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An American Tail

Summary: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 47,483,002
International: $ 37,059,000

Box office:

Domestic:$47.5MInternational:$37.1MWorldwide:$84.5M

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Production:

Universal Pictures

Amblin Entertainment

-1%
72%71%

38/10073/100
39%11%
White83.33%Jewish5.56%Black5.56%Latino5.56%
2.00

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Educational2/5
Message4/5
Role model4/5
Violence3/5
Sex1/5
Language1/5
Drugs2/5

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Forebears66
Ethnic112
This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables.

Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/

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Surname11
A third party free program that uses US Census data to create an algorithm that analyzes surnames and guesses what ethnicity the person is. Obviously there are issues with this data set such as African Americans who have the last names of their ancestors' slave owner. However, when no other data set is available, this can give a rough estimate and expand the data pool for the less important cast members with no IMDb or TMDb image. Please consider downloading their source code via GitHub to verify the accuracy of our data set, and to peer review our conclusions.

Source: https://pypi.org/project/ethnicolr/

Total161118
Cast Percentages88.89%5.56%5.56%100%
U.S. Population (1990) Percentage75.6%12.1%2.22%
Source:
US Census
(Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1990) Representation+13.29-6.54+3.34
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage81.25%7.72%
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation+7.64-2.16
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage80.3%8.65%
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation+8.59-3.09
World population (1986) Percentage18.82%10.03%0.34%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1986) Representation+70.07-4.47+5.22
World Buying Power Percentage36.48%6.38%1.11%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation+52.41-0.82+4.45
Notes
If there were any inconsistencies with percentages calculated using our Census data, the Jewish Data Bank percentages were the ones used. Also please review the Jewish Data Bank pdf to understand the difference between the "Core" Jewish population and the "Extended" / "Law of Return" Jewish populations. We are displaying the "Core" Jewish populations since that is what the Jewish Data Bank and Wikipedia articles chose.

Also, the 1942 population estimates were used for the 1940 row. For the 2000 estimates, the "Core" definition was not used, so we used the 5.2 mil broader estimate instead of the 4.3 mil estimate since the 5.2 broader estimate seemed too drastic of a drop and the definitions weren't congruent with Core and Law of Return.

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Educational
2/5

Introduces the U.S. immigration experience of the late 1800s.

Message
4/5

Don't lose hope or faith; keep trying, and believe in happy endings. Family is the most important thing, and friends can help you when you need it. Sheds a light on some of the dire circumstances that emigres experienced in the late 19th century.

Role model
4/5

Fievel is hopeful and determined; he perseveres and never gives up. H meets many characters from different ethnic backgrounds who help him find his family. The bad guy is deceitful and manipulative, but he's clearly not a role model.

Violence
3/5

A village is burned, and cats attack mice (sometimes narrowly avoiding being eaten). Peril on a ship's deck results in a mouse being lost at sea and separated from his parents -- this scene could be very upsetting for young/sensitive kids. More close calls in the city, and Fievel is caught in a fire. Song lyrics mention mice being killed by cats. Funeral shows a dead mouse; Fievel's family believes he is dead (sad). The bad guy and his giant mechanical mouse could be scary to very little kids.

Sex
1/5

Young mice share a kiss. Buxom pigeons represent the French bird female population.

Language
1/5

"Shut up," "pipe down," "runt," "Geez, Louise."

Drugs
2/5

Honest John drinks to excess at a wake. A mouse hiccups after drinking sparkling wine. Characters smoke cigars.

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