![]() Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the direction, writing and music score, but criticized the darker elements and stated that "83 minutes is a long time for an adult to think about mice". A DVD version has yet to be released in the United States, but it was released on DVD in Japan. The film was first released on RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video on VHS in 1985 and re-released in 1991 in the United States. Together they manage to form a family and destroy the rat empire. They rediscover the elephant and seal, who are somewhat broken down. With the aid of a psychic frog, the mice escape and meet other animals on a quest to become free and independent self-winding toys. 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. They accidentally fall off the counter and end up in the trash. ![]() The child mouse proposes staying at the shop to form a family, which the other toys ridicule. ![]() ![]() After being unpacked, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. 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. The Mouse and His Child is a 1977 animated film based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Russell Hoban. ![]()
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