Brian De Palma's 1983 remake of Howard Hawks' original relocates the story to Miami's 1980 Mariel boatlift, with Oliver Stone's screenplay tracking a Cuban refugee's rise through the cocaine trade under Al Pacino at his most excessive. Giorgio Moroder's synthesizer score and a mansion-siege finale that a visiting Steven Spielberg helped shoot gave the film an afterlife in pop culture far larger than its mixed initial reviews suggested.
A widowed field mouse named Mrs. Brisby has to move her sick son before the farmer's plough destroys their home, and finds help among a colony of unusually intelligent rats who escaped a laboratory years earlier. Don Bluth directed the film as his debut after leaving Disney's animation department with several colleagues in 1979 to found an independent studio, taking on a book Disney had rejected twice before, adding mystical elements not present in the source novel, and finishing the whole project on a tighter budget and schedule than the studio he'd left would have allowed.