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The Secret of NIMH
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #147
- IMDb #149
- Google retired #264
- Rotten Tomatoes #105
- Metacritic #90
- Letterboxd #156
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #116
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #147
- Metacritic Critics #98
- Metacritic Audience #73
- Criticker #76
- Kinopoisk #185
- AlloCiné #179
- Trakt #254
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93.
See the most agreed on films →A widowed field mouse must move her family to safety before the farmer's plow destroys their home. Her sick son requires medicine, and her only hope lies in seeking help from the mysterious rats of NIMH, a highly intelligent group living under a rosebush. They possess a secret technology and a connection to a past laboratory experiment that gave them heightened intelligence.
Details
- Director
- Don Bluth
- Writers
- Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy, Will Finn
- Based on
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- Released
- 17 June 1982
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $7.0M
- Box office
- $14.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| Saturn Award 1982 | — | The Secret of NIMH | Winner |
| Youth in Film Award 1982 | — | The Secret of NIMH | Nominee |
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