Bijou After Hours is a late-night film series featuring cult classics, fan favorites and modern genre films.

Free admission for UI students with valid ID. $5 for general public. Tickets available at the door only.

THE SECRET OF NIMH

"A spectacular return to the shimmering, mesmerizing deep-focus animation associated with Disney's classic period." - Time Out

"Every character moves fluidly and imaginatively against an extravaganza of detailed background and dazzling effects, all emboldened by fascinating colored textures." - Variety

Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving the studio. Adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's acclaimed children's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H., the film is about a widowed mouse whose home is threatened; also, one of her children is  gravely ill. On her way to find help, she discovers NIMH, a secret society of highly-intelligent rats who have escaped from a nearby science lab. The rats help the widow to protect her family and home (Rovi).