Back The Secret of NIMH AN سر نيمه Arabic Тайната на умните мишоци Bulgarian The Secret of NIMH Catalan The Secret of NIMH Welsh Mrs. Brisby und das Geheimnis von NIMH German The Secret of NIMH English The Secret of NIMH Esperanto The Secret of NIMH Spanish راز نیمح Persian
| The Secret Of NIMH | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Don Bluth |
| Written by | Don Bluth Robert C. O'Brien Will Finn Gary Goldman John Pomeroy |
| Produced by | Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy |
| Starring | Elizabeth Hartman Derek Jacobi Dom DeLuise John Carradine Arthur Malet Hermione Baddeley Peter Strauss Paul Shenar Shannen Doherty Wil Wheaton |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. (theatrical) 20th Century Fox (2007 DVD release) |
Release dates | July 2, 1982 (USA) October 22, 1982 (Brazil) |
Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$7 million |
| Box office | US$14,665,733 |
The Secret of NIMH is an animated movie directed by Don Bluth and released by his studio United Artists in 1982. The movie was based on Robert C. O'Brien's children's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. (The main character's name was changed to "Brisby", so that its audiences would not take its sound for the Frisbee toy.) Bluth began the idea of creating this movie after disagreement with Disney over The Fox and the Hound. Before that he worked with the previous Disney animated movie which was also about mice: The Rescuers. Later he made another animated movie about mice called An American Tail, which came out in 1986.