Despite losing his car and almost falling down a storm drain, Stuart manages to evade Smokey's gang and return home, despite the Littles having put up posters of him all over the city. Furious, Smokey orders a manhunt for Stuart, with the other cats (minus Snowbell) cornering him in Central Park and causing a chase. But the Stouts, having grown to love Stuart like their own, tell him the truth and instruct him to escape. Fearing retribution should the Littles discover Snowbell's deception, Smokey orders the Stouts to hand Stuart over to them. Meanwhile, Snowbell meets with Smokey and the alley cats, who reveal that they had forced the Stouts to pose as Stuart's parents, in order to remove Stuart from the household. Keeper arrives to tell the Littles that she has figured out what happened to Stuart's real parents they died seven years ago in a supermarket accident after being crushed by a collapsing pyramid of canned cream of mushroom soup (which is a very heavy soup), prompting the Littles to call the police believing he was kidnapped. Reluctantly, Stuart leaves with the Stouts, George presenting him a toy car as a farewell gift. During the family celebration, the Littles are visited by a mouse couple, Reginald and Camille Stout, who claim to be Stuart's parents who gave him up to the orphanage years ago due to poverty. Stuart snaps the wires of Anton's boat in half causing it to malfunction, and wins the race, finally winning George's respect. To make it up to George, Stuart pilots the Wasp himself, but ends up in a tussle with a larger boat piloted by George's rival, Anton, a local bully who has cheated by wiping out everyone else's boats. Stuart and George finish the Wasp in time for the race, but on the day of the race, the controller is smashed when a gentleman accidentally steps on it. Smokey plans to have Stuart removed from the household.
Determined not to have his reputation destroyed, Snowbell meets with Monty's leader, Smokey. At the same time, however, one of Snowbell's alley cat friends, Monty, visits unexpectedly and discovers Stuart. Keeper to do some background research on Stuart's biological family.Īfter accidentally stumbling across George's playroom in the basement, Stuart finally bonds with George when they play together and plan to finish George's remote controlled racing sailboat, the Wasp, for an upcoming boat race in Central Park. When Stuart admits his feelings of loneliness to his parents, they ask Mrs. Despite Eleanor and Frederick's intentions, Stuart quickly feels like an outsider in the large Little family, especially when their relatives bring Stuart large presents and George snaps at his family, claiming that Stuart is not his brother. However, Stuart is greeted coldly by George, who refuses to acknowledge the mouse as his brother, and the family cat Snowbell, who is disgusted at having a mouse for a "master". Keeper, they adopt Stuart and take him home. While George is at school, his parents go to an orphanage where they meet an anthropomorphic teenage mouse named Stuart.
The first film in the Stuart Little series, it was followed by a sequel, Stuart Little 2 in 2002, the short-lived television series Stuart Little in 2003, and another sequel in 2005, the direct-to-video Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. It received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination, losing to The Matrix. The film was released on Decemby Columbia Pictures. The film's sequel more closely resembles the original novel. The plot bears little resemblance to that of the book, as only some of the characters and a few minor plot elements are the same.
Night Shyamalan and Greg Brooker, and stars Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Jonathan Lipnicki, alongside the voices of Michael J. Directed by Rob Minkoff in his live action debut, the screenplay was written by M. Stuart Little is a 1999 American family comedy film loosely based on the novel of the same name by E.