The Secret of NIMH (1982)

Overview
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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Overview
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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Primary
The film explores universal themes of survival, family, and community in the face of external threats, including human impact on nature and the ethics of scientific experimentation, without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology as its central thesis.
This animated film features anthropomorphic animal characters and a traditional portrayal of human roles, without explicit racial or gender identities for the animal cast. The narrative focuses on themes of survival and community, and does not incorporate modern DEI themes or offer critiques of traditional identities.
Secondary
The film "The Secret of NIMH" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The story focuses on a widowed mouse's struggle to save her family, with themes centered on courage, community, and survival, without engaging with queer identity.
The film features Mrs. Brisby, a field mouse, who faces various challenges and antagonists. Her successes are achieved through courage, wit, and the use of a magical amulet, rather than direct physical combat against male opponents. Other female characters do not engage in significant physical combat.
The film adapts the novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." All major characters, such as Mrs. Brisby, Justin, Nicodemus, and the Great Owl, maintain the same gender as established in the original source material.
The film's characters are anthropomorphic animals (mice, rats, etc.). As such, they do not possess human racial characteristics, making the concept of a 'race swap' inapplicable to this adaptation.
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