The Secret of NIMH

Movie • 1982 • Adventure  

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A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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Does the dog die?
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amwhite91
I think the yeses are from when "dog" was the only category for all animals.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is there BDSM?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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Harlbior
A cat manages to sneak up behind Jeremy and Mrs. Brisby.
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Is there domestic violence?
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mothyman
feel like it's just more regular lying and manipulating than actual gaslighting but something similar
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Mike Gourdin
Man lab animals and a house cat are given drugs.
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
149 supporters
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Mike Gourdin
Several mice are blown off screen and we are told they die.
A spider is graphically killed.
Several humanoid Rats kill each other in combat / with falling objects.
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Are animals abused?
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MikeGourdin
Animals of all kinds are shown in the NIMH lab, sad and suffering. Rats are stuck with large syringes in the belly. This is depicted as painful and traumatic for the rats.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Dragon lives
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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MikeGourdin
There is a very graphic and scary spider that stalks a main character in one scene
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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MikeGourdin
I believe there is a water snake at some point, it's treated as part of the scenery.
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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amwhite91
A spider and moths are shown.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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begger4mcgregor
Jeremy the crow is tied up with colorful string but it is played as comedic rather than frightening
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
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mkstacy
Mrs Frisby cuts her arm on the wire of the cage when she escapes.
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amwhite91
Several characters struggle underwater and almost drown.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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mothyman
both a spider and a major character are crushed by an owl and a cinder block respectively
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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KirstenWJohnson
A “house” with mice children inside start to sink into the mud but are pulled out
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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jmaa
A spider (including head) is graphically squashed.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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mothyman
a cat is drugged unconscious but it doesn't have much focus past the act of putting the powder in its food
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MikeGourdin
Not on screen, but a major character who has no broken bones initially shows up later in a cast an stays in it the rest of the movie.
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amwhite91
The rats have seizure-like reactions to being injected.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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amwhite91
The experimentation that the rats underwent is depicted in a way that resembles torture.
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mrflatwoods
Yes, but for comedic effect.
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amwhite91
A character falls after being impaled with a throwing knife and then dies. It seems from the shot that the knife killed him, not the fall.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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mrflatwoods
There's an entire rat swordfight where this happens a few times.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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StardustWhip
No, but for a moment in the ending it seems as though the main character's kids have all drowned.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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StardustWhip
Not onscreen, but at the start of the movie the main character's husband (and the father of her kids) has recently died.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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amwhite91
Mrs. Brisby is put in a cage. The animals undergoing experimentation in NIMH were kidnapped.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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mothyman
i cannot think of a single ghost those four yesses could possibly apply to. there is a flashback of a dead character that might look like a ghost?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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amwhite91
There is a pretty gross sound when the spider is stepped on.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Mike Gourdin
A rat or mouse is stuck with a large syringe.
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amwhite91
Yes, but not in the way that is usually meant by this prompt. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health. The only place within the facility we see is the places where animals are caged. We don't see any humans undergoing treatment.
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mothyman
not a hospital but a research facility. it bears very little resemblance, but is medical in nature
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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begger4mcgregor
While it is not self harm, some wire accidentally scratches Mrs Brisby's arm while she is captured in the farmhouse and she submerges the cut in water and it could be triggering to some as being reminiscent of self harm
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Mike Gourdin
No characters in the movie die of suicide. However the main actress Elizabeth Hartman committed a depression related suicide.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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amwhite91
There are several moments with flashing lights in the beginning of the film
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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mothyman
i don't speak for everyone with disabilities, but as an autistic person i wouldn't say there's anything ableist in the slightest. in a brief scene, a very young child is ignored due to being disruptive (one of those 'i'm only going to listen to the child talking politely' things), but she isn't particularly neurodivergent coded. just five years old
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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StaleOrchid
One of the mice children is ill, and would die had he not gotten medicine
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Yes
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KirstenWJohnson
The protagonist is trying to move her home to safety and there is a moment when it seems impossible to do so
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Yes
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mothyman
a character dies, but the rats escape safely, the villain is killed, mrs brisby and her children move successfully, and timmy recovers. we end on a scene of mrs brisby in her new home, smiling and laughing. so although the journey was difficult, the ending is happy
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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MikeGourdin
No but there are some tense scenes involving water.
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Is there blood/gore?
54 supporters
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amwhite91
Some characters are bloodied during a sword fighting scene.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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