Does the dog die?
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The Secret of NIMH
Movie • 1982 • Adventure
ReportA 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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amwhite91
I think the yeses are from when "dog" was the only category for all animals.
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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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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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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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Addiction
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Mike Gourdin
Man lab animals and a house cat are given drugs.
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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.
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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Does a cat die?
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Dragon lives
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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 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 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 restrained?
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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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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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mkstacy
Mrs Frisby cuts her arm on the wire of the cage when she escapes.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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amwhite91
Several characters struggle underwater and almost drown.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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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 buried 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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Does a head get squashed?
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jmaa
A spider (including head) is graphically squashed.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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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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Does someone break a bone?
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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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Does someone have a seizure?
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amwhite91
The rats have seizure-like reactions to being injected.
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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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Does someone fall down stairs?
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mrflatwoods
Yes, but for comedic effect.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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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 someone stabbed?
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mrflatwoods
There's an entire rat swordfight where this happens a few times.
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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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Death
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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 someone kidnapped?
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amwhite91
Mrs. Brisby is put in a cage. The animals undergoing experimentation in NIMH were kidnapped.
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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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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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Are needles/syringes used?
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Mike Gourdin
A rat or mouse is stuck with a large syringe.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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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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Is there a hospital scene?
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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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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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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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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Are there flashing lights or images?
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amwhite91
There are several moments with flashing lights in the beginning of the film
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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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 incestuous relationships?
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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StaleOrchid
One of the mice children is ill, and would die had he not gotten medicine
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Is someone homeless?
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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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Does it have a sad ending?
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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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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?
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amwhite91
Some characters are bloodied during a sword fighting scene.
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