This is an early film from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, his second, and I have to say it is a really good one. Basically the Smuntz brothers, Ernie (The Birdcage's Nathan Lane) and Lars (Lee Evans, after Funny Bones and before There's Something About Mary) have recently lost their father, Rudolf (Prizzi's Honor's William Hickey, who died soon after), they inherit the family string factory, and an old house. Lars, the loyal son, refuses to sell the factory, making his wife April (Godzilla's Vicki Lewis) mad and chuck him out, and Ernie, the not-so-honest son, has lost his five-star restaurant because of the Mayor's death (ate a cockroach). With no place to go, both of them sleep in the old house, but they soon find out the place is worth a fortune, the architect of 1876 was the famous Charles Lyle Lerue. They decide to fix the place up in ready for an auction, and Alexander Falko (Entrapment's Maury Chaykin) is the most likely high-profit buyer. The only problem they have while fixing the house is a mouse, so they are trying everything they can think of to hunt it down and get rid of it. This includes many mousetraps, a cat named Catzilla, a pest control man named Caesar (a brief but great Christopher Walken) and just chasing it and getting themselves injured to hell. Also starring Eric Christmas as The Smuntz's lawyer, Michael Jeter as Quincy Thorpe, Debra Christofferson as Ingrid and Camilla Soeberg as Hilde. Filled with hilarious slapstick, not just from Lee Evans (his trait) but Lane has some fantastic moments of frustration. This is great family fun, unless you have a thing with mice. Very good!