the mouse and his child

Director: charles swenson,fred wolf

Actor: peter ustinov,cloris leachman,sally kellerman,andy devine

Data Published: Fri Nov 18 1977

Genres: Animation,Adventure,Drama,Family

Key Words: animal that acts human,anthropomorphism,cult film,toy,talking animal

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076416/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_and_His_Child_(film)

Description: The Mouse and His Child is a movie starring Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, and Sally Kellerman. Adaptation of Russell Hoban's novel about two mechanical toy mice, and their quest to become "self-winding".

Plot: The mouse and his child are two parts of a single small wind-up toy, which must be wound by a key in the father's back. After being unpacked, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. The child mouse proposes staying at the shop to form a family, which the other toys ridicule. They accidentally fall out of a window and land in the trash. Once transported to the dump, they become enslaved by Manny the rat, who runs a casino and uses broken wind-up toys as his slave labor force. With the aid of a psychic frog, the mice escape and meet other animal characters on a quest of becoming free and independent self-winding toys. They rediscover the elephant and seal, who are somewhat broken down. Together they manage to form a family and destroy the rat empire.