Stuart Little (film)

Plot
Eleanor Little (Geena Davis) and Frederick Little (Hugh Laurie) go to the orphanage to adopt a younger brother for their young son George (Jonathan Lipnicki). At the orphanage, they meet and fall in love with an anthropomorphic mouse named Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox). Despite misgivings from Mrs. Keeper (Julia Sweeney), they adopt Stuart and take him home. However, Stuart is greeted coldly by George, who refuses to acknowledge the mouse as his brother, and the family cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane), who is disgusted at having a mouse for a "master".

Stuart's new life at the house gets off to a bad start when George unknowingly traps him in a pile of laundry and his mother puts the laundry in the washing machine. After Snowbell refuses to help Stuart out and leaves him behind, Eleanor opens the washing machine, dumping out the clothes and water. Stuart accidentally swallows all the soap and Eleanor puts him to bed, sending Dr. Beechwood, a nurse, to help him feel better. Then he admits that their son has swallowed all the detergent and says he is now very clean.

Stuart quickly feels like an outsider in the large Little family, especially when George declares Stuart is not his brother, but simply a mouse. When Stuart tells his parents that he is lonely, they ask Mrs. Keeper to do some background research on Stuart's biological family.

After accidentally stumbling across George's playroom in the basement one day, Stuart and George get to know each other and plan to finish George's remote-controlled boat, the Wasp, for an upcoming boat race in Central Park. At the same time, one of Snowbell's alley cat friends, Monty (voiced by Steve Zahn), visits unexpectedly and discovers Stuart. Determined not to have his reputation destroyed, Snowbell meets with Monty's leader, Smokey (voiced by Chazz Palminteri), a mafia don-like alley cat, and plans to have Stuart removed from the household without harming him.

Stuart and George finish the Wasp in time, but when the control is broken on the day of the race, Stuart pilots the Wasp himself. He ends up entangled with a larger boat belonging to George's rival, Anton (Miles Marsico), who picks on him at school, but Stuart snaps the wires of Anton's boat and manages to win the race. After this, George warms up to Stuart and calls him "his brother".

During the family celebration, however, the Littles are visited by a mouse couple, Reginald and Camille Stout (both voiced by Bruno Kirby and Jennifer Tilly), who claim to be Stuart's parents and that they gave him up to the orphanage years ago due to poverty. Reluctantly, Stuart leaves with the Stouts. A few days later, however, Mrs. Keeper comes to visit and tells the Littles that Stuart's parents actually died many years ago in a supermarket accident. Realizing their son has been kidnapped, the Littles call the police, who start a search operation.

Meanwhile, Snowbell meets with Smokey and the alley cats, who reveal they had forced the Stouts to pose as Stuart's parents in order to remove him from the household. Fearing retribution should the Littles discover Snowbell's deception, Smokey orders the Stouts to hand Stuart over to them. However, the Stouts, having grown fond of Stuart, tell him the truth and instruct him to flee because the cats in Central Park are looking for him. Stuart then drives away in the roadster, saying goodbye to his "fake" parents.

Smokey subsequently orders a hit on Stuart. He and the alley cats corner him in Central Park, and after a brief chase, Stuart evades them in a storm drain. He returns home, but finds the Littles absent, having gone out to put up posters of him. The only one present is Snowbell, who lies that the Littles have been enjoying themselves since Stuart's departure and uses Stuart's removed face from the family photograph as proof (which they had actually used for the posters). Heartbroken, Stuart leaves again.

When the Littles return distraught, Snowbell starts to recognize his selfishness and feels guilty for what he has done. The cats pinpoint Stuart's location in Central Park and bring Snowbell for the hunt. However, he finds Stuart sitting in a bird nest in a tree and decides to save him from the cats, admitting that he lied and the Littles do love him. Snowbell then tries to reason with Smokey to let Stuart go, but Smokey refuses and demands his gang to kill both Stuart and Snowbell.

Stuart lures the cats away, but is cornered on a branch and Snowbell's collar falls into a Hantan River. Snowbell rescues him by breaking the branch the cats are on, sending them falling down into the river below. An angry Smokey prepares to kill Snowbell, but Stuart hits Smokey off the tree with another branch into the river. Humiliated, Smokey runs off, only to be chased away by a pack of dogs. Stuart rides Snowbell all the way home and they share a happy reunion with the Little family.

Cast

 * Geena Davis as Eleanor Little
 * Hugh Laurie as Frederick Little
 * Jonathan Lipnicki as George Little
 * Jeffrey Jones as Uncle Crenshaw Little
 * Connie Ray as Aunt Tina Little
 * Allyce Beasley as Aunt Beatrice Little
 * Brian Doyle-Murray as Cousin Edgar Little
 * Estelle Getty as Grandma Estelle Little
 * Harold Gould as Grandpa Spencer Little
 * Patrick Thomas O'Brien as Uncle Stretch Little
 * Stan Freberg as Race Announcer
 * Jon Polito as Detective Sherman
 * Jim Doughan as Detective Phil Allen
 * Julia Sweeney as Mrs. Keeper, Head of the Orphanage
 * Miles Marsico as Anton
 * Taylor Negron as Salesman in mall

Voices

 * Michael J. Fox as Stuart Little
 * Chazz Palminteri as Smokey the Chief
 * Nathan Lane as Snowbell
 * Steve Zahn as Monty the Mouth
 * David Alan Grier as Red
 * Bruno Kirby as Reginald Stout
 * Jennifer Tilly as Camille Stout
 * Jim Doughan as Lucky