Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie were cast as Eleanor and Frederick Little, the parents. Their casting was a stroke of genius. Davis and Laurie play their roles with a straight-faced, almost noir-like sincerity. They do not treat the fact that they are adopting a mouse as a whimsical oddity; they treat it with the gravity of a life-changing decision. This "straight man" approach grounds the absurdity of the premise. When Eleanor says, "We have to look past the differences," she isn't delivering a throwaway line; she is delivering the film's moral thesis with conviction.
While Stuart’s new parents are overjoyed, he immediately faces an uphill battle to fit in. George is disappointed by his bite-sized brother, and the family’s Persian cat, Snowbell, is downright humiliated by the fact that his new "master" is a rodent. Stuart must navigate a giant human world, dodge a syndicate of neighborhood alley cats, and prove that big hearts come in the smallest packages. 🌟 Cast & Creative Team stuart little 1999
The story begins when Frederick and Eleanor Little ( and Geena Davis ) visit an orphanage to find a younger brother for their son, George ( Jonathan Lipnicki ). Instead of a human child, they are charmed by Stuart, a polite and observant talking mouse voiced by Michael J. Fox . Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie were cast as