MouseHunt

Who's hunting who?

6.5
19971h 38m

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.

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Trailers & Videos

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Mousehunt (1997), 35mm film trailer, flat open matte, 1.17:1 ratio 2520x2160

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Trailer 1

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MOUSEHUNT Preview Trailer

Cast

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Nathan Lane

Ernie Smuntz

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Lee Evans

Lars Smuntz

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Vicki Lewis

April Smuntz

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Maury Chaykin

Alexander Falko

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Eric Christmas

The Lawyer

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Michael Jeter

Quincy Thorpe

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Ian Abercrombie

Auctioneer

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Annabelle Gurwitch

Roxanne Atkins

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Eric Poppick

The Banker

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William Hickey

Rudolf Smuntz

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Melanie MacQueen

Mayor's Wife

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Mario Cantone

Zeppco Suit #1

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Suzanne Krull

Waitress #1

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E.J. Callahan

Historical Clerk

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Reviews

谭哞哞

5/10

The opening part of *The Mouse Hunt* is indeed funny—especially the bit where the protagonist’s dad falls into the sewer.

After the mouse shows up, the suffering goes on forever, so I skipped most of the scenes where the mouse fights back because they were kind of boring. Honestly, even though the mouse defeats different opponents in different ways, the theme is always the same: the mouse is so powerful that everyone gets humiliated.

Even heroes as strong as Spider‑Man or Jackie Chan in *Jackie Chan Adventures* can take down a bunch of foes in a single episode, but they occasionally run into truly formidable enemies that take two or three episodes to defeat—like Venom for Spider‑Man or the Hell Demon in *Jackie Chan Adventures*. If the mouse dominates the whole story from start to finish, isn’t that dull? Is this really just a family comedy meant only for kids?

The $25 million auctioned old house gets wrecked by the mouse, and then the mouse follows the two brothers to a textile factory, where it makes a cheesy furball. The brothers end up making peace with the mouse… I think I’ll go watch *How to Train Your Dragon* instead.

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