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Mousehunt

1997

Action / Comedy

65
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 62898 62.9K

cook slapstick factory worker factory sibling relationship winter

Plot summary

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.

Director

Gore Verbinski Photo
Gore Verbinski

Top cast

Michael Laren Photo
Michael Laren as Drowning Waiter
Christopher Walken Photo
Christopher Walken as Caeser, the Exterminator
William Hickey Photo
William Hickey as Rudolph Smuntz
Whit Hertford Photo
Whit Hertford as Vinny
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897.7 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 7
1.8 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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895.85 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 6
1.8 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
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1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by matthewssilverhammer 7 / 10

Underrated

Based on the logline premise, poster, MPAA rating, and marketing, this is a "children's" film. However, there is really NOTHING here for children; it's very violent, overly adult, darkly charactered, and mean. Luckily, I'm not a child, so I found it delightfully silly in all its hot-headed hedonism. Just when it's mean-spiritedness begins to overwhelm the fun, it quickly turns the corner, making a point about the uselessness of selfishness. Most surprisingly, Silvestri's score is great.
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Reviewed by the red duchess 7 / 10

A true family classic.

A children's film with a moral. Unlike a certain purveyor of saccharine entertainment, however, this moral is political, even metaphysical - if you exploit your workers, if you pursue greed until it makes you mad, if you break the ties that bind; if, in short, you snap the string, a Pandora's Box of chaos will be your lot, until you become a latterday Roderick Usher, your crumbling mansion a metaphor for your disintegrating mind.

With its Gilliam-like recreation of a dank, Orwellian universe; with its Tim Burton pervading of Gothic atmosphere; with its twisted Coens' live-action cartoon sensibility (imagine Christopher Walken in a children's film? Even better than that), and you have fun for all the family.

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