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MouseHunt
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Produced by Bart Brown,
Bruce Cohen,
Tony Ludwig
Written by Adam Rifkin
Starring Nathan Lane
Lee Evans
Christopher Walken
William Hickey
Distributed by Dreamworks
Release date(s) December 19, 1997
Running time 96 min. Gregor "Gore" Verbinski (born March 16 1964) is an American Film director and Writer. Adam Rifkin (born in 1966 sometimes credited as Rif Coogan, is an American Film director, producer, Actor and Writer. Joseph “Nathan” Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen Lee Evans (born 25 February, 1964) is an award winning British stand-up comedian and Actor. Christopher Walken (born March 31 1943 is an American Film and Theatre Actor. William Edward Hickey ( September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar
Language English
Budget $38 million
IMDb profile

MouseHunt is a 1997 slapstick/black comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, scored by Alan Silvestri and released by DreamWorks SKG. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Slapstick is a type of Comedy involving exaggerated physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense such as a character being hit in the face with Black comedy, also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of Comedy and Satire where topics and events that are usually regarded Gregor "Gore" Verbinski (born March 16 1964) is an American Film director and Writer. Alan Silvestri (born March 26, 1950, New York City) is an acclaimed American Academy Award nominated Film score Composer DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio

Starring Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, it tells the story of two brothers who, upon inheriting an antique house, must rid it of a troublesome mouse which comically foils their efforts to exterminate it. Joseph “Nathan” Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen Lee Evans (born 25 February, 1964) is an award winning British stand-up comedian and Actor. A mouse (plural mice) is a small Animal that belongs to one

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Lars (Lee Evans) and Ernie (Nathan Lane) Smuntz are two "down on their luck" brothers, who are the sons of a wealthy, deceased string manufacturer (William Hickey). Lee Evans (born 25 February, 1964) is an award winning British stand-up comedian and Actor. Joseph “Nathan” Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen William Edward Hickey ( September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor

The movie opens with their father's funeral, where things quickly go awry. As the brothers carry their father's casket down the church stairs, they begin to argue about whether Lars' semi-gray suit is black enough for his father's funeral. This results in Lars' angrily jerking at the poorly manufactured coffin, causing the handle to come off and send the coffin thundering down the church stairs. Accompanied by shrieks from the crowd, the coffin hits a parked limousine and the corpse flies out of it and into an open manhole cover. A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a Manhole, to prevent anyone from falling in and to keep unauthorized persons out

Lars and Ernie learn that their father bequeathed to them his outdated string factory along with a number of personal effects to the tune of a box of Cuban cigars, a spoon collection, a ceramic egg, and a crumbling old mansion burdened with bank debt, which their father used to to pay the workers of his unprofitable string enterprise.

In contrast to his father, who in his heydays was a fairly successful string merchant, Ernie is a high-class, hotshot chef, who never liked the string business. His father's inheritance spells disaster for him when he brings the box of cigars with him into the kitchen of his restaurant, Chez Ernie. Unbeknownst to Ernie, a cockroach had stowed away in the box, and, upon crawling out of it, made its way to one of his opulent dishes ready for serving. The local mayor visits the restaurant that night amidst a throng of reporters eager to interview him on the eve of his re-election campaign. Instead they witness and document the mayor accidentally eating the cockroach and subsequently dying of heart failure (even after spitting out the head).

With his restaurant closed, Ernie finds employment in a seamy little fast food restaurant, Rimpy's, where he meets Lars who had just been thrown out of his home by his temperamental wife, April. Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly Lars, who shared his father's dedication to the string industry and had vowed to his dying father that he would never sell Smuntz' String, had refused to sell the factory to two seedy business types, thus enraging April. For a while the two brothers wander the streets until they are reminded by a cake in store window that they do have a home—their father's old estate.

During a noisy and uneasy night in the decrepit building, the two brothers fortuitously discover the house's blueprints (dated 1876) in its attic, leading to the discovery that the house is a long-lost architectural marvel possibly worth millions. A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a Technical drawing, documenting an Architecture or an Engineering design Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

However, the house does already have an occupant—an intelligent and tenacious little mouse. Fearing an incident similar to that of the aforementioned cockroach, Ernie decides to get rid of the mouse before he and Lars renovate and auction off the house. They try every possible way to get rid of the little animal, from using a vacuum, which explodes due to it being inserted in a sewage pipe, to a vicious overgrown tiger-like domestic cat nicknamed Catzilla, which the mouse cunningly lures into a dumbwaiter and then chewing through the cables, to a huge mousetrap array, to the eccentric exterminator Caesar (Christopher Walken) (who gets yanked out of the house by his own equipment), to Lars unknowingly trying to stab the mouse with a barrage of nails from a machine nail gun (Lars was fastening on a wall frame). Christopher Walken (born March 31 1943 is an American Film and Theatre Actor.

Ultimately, during the final encounter with the mouse before the auction, Ernie and Lars use a shotgun to accidentally shoot Caesar's obscured flea-bomb (Ernie was aiming down a hole in the floor that the mouse had gone through) and the explosion makes a massive hole in the floor. It is then that they realize each other's attempts to sell and keep the factory without telling one another (via a message on the answering machine), leading to a heated argument in which Lars snaps throws an orange at Ernie which accidentally knocks the mouse out. Taking their chance, but unable to bring themselves to killing the unconscious creature, they put the mouse in a box, stamp it, and mail it to Fidel Castro, Havana, Cuba. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 1926 is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from December 1959 to December 1976 and then president until

Unfortunately, during the auction, Lars discovers that the box has been returned to its sender, due to insufficient postage of the item, and that the mouse has chewed its way out.

During their secret antics with the mouse during the auction, Lars and Ernie attempt to flush the mouse from the walls using a garden hose, leading to major wreckage of the house immediately before the culmination of the auction. The bidders are washed out the front door of the house just before it falls down completely. The brothers are left broke. . . until the mouse discovers how to make string cheese using the old factory. The brothers, with the mouse as their resident cheese tester, establish a successful new business by renovating the old factory.

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