Mouse Hunt (1997)

When the once-wealthy string magnate Rudolf Smuntz dies, he leaves his factory and a dilapidated Victorian mansion to his sons Ernie and Lars. Ernie, who has ignored the family business to become a chef, walks out of the reading of the will, taking a box of cigars. At Ernie's restaurant, a cockroach crawls out of the box and into a dish prepared for Mayor McKrinkle, causing him to have a fatal heart attack. After McKrinkle's death, Ernie's restaurant is shut down and scheduled for demolition. Ernie loses his career and his home. Meanwhile, Zeppco International, a cord company, offers Lars a buyout for the factory, but he remembers his promise to Rudolf never to sell it, and refuses. Furious, Lars's greedy wife, April, kicks him out of the house. Lars and Ernie meet up, and with nowhere else to go, spend the night in the mansion. The brothers cannot sleep due to noises caused by a very intelligent mouse, and while investigating, discover the blueprints of the property. The blueprints reveal that the mansion is the fabled final design of the famous architect, Charles Lyle LaRue, and would be worth a fortune if restored. The brothers decide to renovate and auction the mansion to recover their lives. They later see the mouse again. Ernie, fearing a repeat of the cockroach incident, convinces Lars that they must also get rid of the mouse. To remove the mouse, the brothers buy a cat named "Catzilla" and hire exterminator Caesar; the mouse drops Catzilla in a dumbwaiter, and traumatizes Caesar by dragging him around the mansion using his truck's winch line. Ernie had borrowed against the mansion's mortgage to pay for an unnecessary addition as part of the renovations. Now, they will be evicted by the bank in two days unless they pay. However, with their limited funds, the brothers cannot pay their workers, prompting them to quit. Ernie finds Zeppco's business card and arranges a meeting to secretly accept their buyout offer. After Lars accidentally loses his clothes to machines while trying to run the factory alone, he is met by April, who has learned of the mansion's value and takes Lars back, giving him the funds that they need. While attempting to impress women, Ernie is hit by a bus and misses his meeting with Zeppco's representatives. Enraged, Ernie later chases the mouse with a shotgun and accidentally shoots a bug bomb Caesar had dropped, blowing a hole in the floor. Lars later overhears Zeppco call and leave a voicemail, saying that they have taken back their proposal since Lars declined their offer and Ernie never showed up for the meeting. Angry at each other for their actions, the brothers get into an argument. Lars throws an orange at Ernie, which misses him but hits the mouse, who is stunned but still alive. The brothers cannot bring themselves to finish him off, and instead mail him in a box addressed to Fidel Castro. The brothers reconcile and finish their renovations. The postal box, however, is eventually returned due to insufficient postage. On the night of the auction, while giving a speech, Ernie sees the mouse on his podium. As the auction begins, the brothers attempt to flush the mouse out with a garden hose, filling an inner wall of the mansion with water until it bursts, washing the bidders out and causing the estate to collapse. When April leaves with a wealthy bidder, the brothers are left with nothing, but take solace in that the collapse must have killed the mouse. The brothers spend the night in the factory, unaware that the mouse has actually survived, and followed them. Seeing their sorry state, the mouse takes pity on them and activates the factory's machinery, dropping a block of cheese into the wax boiler to produce a ball of string cheese. Inspired, the brothers end their battle with the mouse and renovate the factory to produce string cheese and other cheese-based products. Lars (now having formed a relationship with a Belgian model named Hilde) runs the factory with Ernie as the head chef and the mouse as their taste-tester for new cheese combinations.

	3			Radiohead - Hunting bears
	0			Vladimir Vysotsky - Ohota na Kabanov
	3			Simple Minds - Hunter and the hunted
	2			Deep Forest - Hunting
	6			Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
	6			Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
	5			Alan Silvestri