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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are on our way to America where there are surely, definitely, um, maybe no cats in the 1986 film from Don Bluth, An American Tail.

Imagine leaving your home in a freezing part of Russia because of terrorizing cats, traveling all the way to America for a better, cat-free life, and you end up finding out that there are indeed cats there, too. Not just any regular cat, but crafty and conniving cats. Isn\\u2019t that how it always goes?

And mid-way through your perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, you lose your beloved mouse son to the raging sea. There\\u2019s seemingly no hope of saving him and now you\\u2019ve got to live a depressed life because your dear boy is gone.

All the while, you need to find a way to provide for your family in this new, huge, scary country. Everything is rife with uncertainty. You task yourself with doing anything you can to give your family that good ol\\u2019 \\u201cAmerican Dream\\u201d that you hear so many people talking about. There are just so many opportunities in this new land! Anything would probably be better than where you came from, but you\\u2019re having to start from nothing. That\\u2019s always a scary situation.

In your heart, you know that all this would be better if you just had your dearly missed son.

Yeah, that\\u2019s An American Tail. While all this is happening, your son is mostly okay, but he\\u2019s also depressed and getting into such terrible trouble. He\\u2019s also wondering if he\\u2019ll ever get to see his family again as he\\u2019s running from murderous cats.

From the cover of this movie, you wouldn\\u2019t think that it\\u2019s such a harrowing tale of early American immigration and isolation, but you\\u2019d be wrong! Get ready for a deep, complex, and necessary history lesson. Oh, and it\\u2019s all told by mice.

(Recorded on June 14, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

An American Tail - IMDb

An American Tail trailer - YouTube

Mr. Magoo - Wikipedia

Mr. Bean - IMDb

Rat Race - IMDb

\\u2018I was completely inside\\u2019: Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale off Provincetown - Cape Cod Times

The Great Mouse Detective - IMDb

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - IMDb

Fantasia - IMDb

Up - IMDb

Christopher Plummer - IMDb

Ellis Island - Wikipedia

Steven Spielberg - IMDb

Capernaum - IMDb

Kristin Chenoweth - IMDb

Trojan Horse - Wikipedia

Avatar: The Last Airbender - IMDb

The Last Airbender - IMDb

M. Night Shyamalan - IMDb

The Lion King - IMDb

Airplane! - IMDb

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