On the day of launch, Fievel gets lost and stumbles upon Warren T.'s lair. The mice take over an abandoned building on Chelsea Pier and begin constructing their plan. No one has any idea what to do about it, until Fievel whispers a plan to Gussie. Rat is extorting them all for protection that he never provides. Led by the rich and powerful Gussie Mausheimer, the mice hold a rally to decide what to do about the cats. Meanwhile, his sister, Tanya, tells her gloomy parents she has a feeling that he is still alive, but they urged her that the feeling would soon go away. But as the Mousekewitzes have not yet registered to vote, he can't help Fievel find them. When a gang of some called the Mott Street Maulers attacks a mouse marketplace, the immigrant mice learn that the tales of a no-cat country is not true.īridget takes Fievel and Tony to see Honest John, a drunk (but reliable) politician who knows all the voting mice in New York City. He escapes with Tony, a street-smart Italian mouse, and they join up with Bridget, an Irish mouse trying to rouse her fellow mice to stand up to cats. Rat, who gains his trust and then sells him to a sweatshop. The Mousekewitz arrives sadly in America, believing they've lost their son.įievel, however, floats to America in a bottle, and after a pep talk from a French pigeon named Henri, embarks on a quest to find his family.

During the trip overseas, the family's young son, Fievel, gets separated from the others while and washes overboard in a storm, after he decided to see the fish during the terrible weather by throwing his hat on the deck. In 1885 Shostka, Russia, the Mousekewitzes - a Russian-Jewish family of mice - decide to immigrate to America after an army of cruel cats that belong to the Cossacks (a reference to actual pogroms occurring in Russia at the time) destroy their village.

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