Stuart Little (1999)

December 17, 1999 (DE) • Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure • 84m

Overview

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

Director

Rob Minkoff

Writers

Greg Brooker, M. Night Shyamalan, E.B. White

Top Billed

Michael J. Fox

Keywords

sibling relationship based on novel or book cat gangster orphanage adoption mouse stepbrother world trade center live action and animation talking animal cgi-live action hybrid different species feeling different familiar

Where to watch

Free / Included

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Top Billed Cast

Michael J. Fox

Stuart Little (voice)

Geena Davis

Mrs. Little

Hugh Laurie

Mr. Little

Jonathan Lipnicki

George Little

Nathan Lane

Snowbell (voice)

Chazz Palminteri

Smokey (voice)

Steve Zahn

Monty (voice)

Jim Doughan

Lucky (voice) / Officer Allen

David Alan Grier

Red (voice)

Bruno Kirby

Mr. Stout (voice)

Jennifer Tilly

Mrs. Stout (voice)

Stan Freberg

Race Announcer (voice)

Jeffrey Jones

Uncle Crenshaw

Connie Ray

Aunt Tina

Allyce Beasley

Aunt Beatrice

Brian Doyle-Murray

Cousin Edgar

Estelle Getty

Grandma Estelle

Harold Gould

Grandpa Spencer

Patrick Thomas O'Brien

Uncle Stretch

Julia Sweeney

Mrs. Keeper

Dabney Coleman

Dr. Beechwood

Miles Marsico

Anton

Jon Polito

Officer Sherman

Joe Bays

Race Starter

Taylor Negron

Salesman

Kimmy Robertson

Race Spectator

Tannis Benedict

Hot Dog Vendor

Chuck Blechen

Skipper

Westleigh M. Styer

Skipper

Larry Goodhue

Boat Registrar

Joshua Paule

New Yorker (uncredited)

Crew

Douglas Wick

Producer

Guillermo Navarro

Director of Photography

Greg Brooker

Screenplay

Tom Finan

Editor

M. Night Shyamalan

Screenplay

Rob Minkoff

Director

Patricia Rodríguez

Loop Group Coordinator

Beth Miller

Key Hair Stylist

Robin Griffin

Visual Effects Producer

Steve Waterman

Executive Producer

Joseph A. Porro

Costume Design

Bonita DeHaven

Key Makeup Artist

John Dykstra

Second Unit Director

Debra Zane

Casting Director

Jeff Franklin

Executive Producer

Larry Mann

Supervising Sound Editor

Julie Rogers

Editor

Mindy Hall

Makeup Artist

Linda Drake

Visual Effects Editor

Christina Raye

Hairstylist

Christer Hokanson

Visual Effects Editor

David Kindlon

Mechanical Designer

Kenneth Karman

Music Editor

Bill Brzeski

Production Design

Henry F. Anderson III

Animation Supervisor

Jason Clark

Executive Producer

Elliot Lurie

Music Supervisor

John Dykstra

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor

Philip Toolin

Art Direction

Clay A. Griffith

Set Decoration

Alan Silvestri

Original Music Composer

Patrick Tatopoulos

Creature Design

Tony R. Medina

Propmaker

Jerome Chen

Visual Effects Supervisor

Bill Westenhofer

Visual Effects Supervisor

Wally Pfister

Camera Operator

E.B. White

Novel

Scott Stokdyk

CG Supervisor

Conor O'Gorman

Visual Effects Coordinator

Cyndi Ochs

Visual Effects Coordinator

Diane Warren

Songs

Sean Mullen

CG Animator

Rob Bredow

Effects Supervisor

Terri Taylor

Casting Assistant

Eric Allard

Special Effects Supervisor

Collection

Stuart Little Collection

Stuart Little

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Reviews

Filipe Manuel Neto

⭐ 8/10

August 13, 2023

**A good film for children that can, due to its sweetness, make adults feel that they are left in the room.**

Watching this film is like listening to a fairy tale, or a fable, set in our days. It's the best way I've found to describe it. What we have is a family that decides to adopt a little white mouse, orphaned, after a visit to an orphanage, and that will count on the hostility of the house cat, unhappy that it now has a mouse as its owner.

I saw the movie when I was a kid, at the cinema, and I really liked it. Now, more than twenty years later, I decided to see him again as the adult person that I am and I had a slightly different feeling. The film is extremely simple, Rob Minkoff's direction managed to understand the sweetness and simple effectiveness of the work he had in hand, but was not able to moderate the sugar. That is, we feel, several times during the film, that there is an excess of sweetness, and this makes the adult audience feel like they are too much in the room. I felt it now and that was the big problem with the film for me, a problem that most kids will have ignored without much difficulty.

If little Stuart is a truly adorable character, the same may not be consensual when we think of his adoptive family. The characters weren't as well developed as they could have been, even considering it's a movie for children and young people. Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie do a very good job as the parents and Jonathan Lipnicki is not far behind, lending his character a welcome authenticity. Even so, there remains the question of what the actors could have done with better material in their hands. The work of the voice actors is quite good. Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane deserve full attention in this department.

On a technical level, I think we really have to highlight all the CGI animation involving the animals and their attitudes on a positive note. The effects are also very well done and you can see that there is some financial investment in the film. Of course, a small, almost toy house in the middle of Central Park, one of the most expensive plots of land imaginable, is hard to believe, but that's a detail. The very familiar-looking sets and costumes, hinting at the 50s a bit, were also a nice addition, and the soundtrack does a smart job.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$133,000,000

Revenue

$300,135,367

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Stuart Little (1999)

Greg Brooker, M. Night Shyamalan, E.B. White

Where to watch

Top Billed Cast

Crew

Collection

Stuart Little Collection

Stuart Little

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Reviews

Filipe Manuel Neto

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Perry Mason

3000 Whys of Blue Cat

Michael

Vixen!

Status

Original Language

Budget

Revenue

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