A Mouse Hunt for Christmas

In 'Musevisa', Alf Prøysen's classic Christmas song, the mice can only celebrate Christmas if nobody walks into the trap. That line gives 'A Mouse Hunt for Christmas' its original title. Directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, it's a Norwegian family comedy that puts live actors alongside computer generated mice, and Norwegian critics were quick to compare it with 'Home Alone', as much for its humour as for its traps.

Peter and Sara take their children, Ane and Mikkel, to an old country house that belonged to Peter's aunt to spend Christmas Eve there. What they don't know is that another family of four has been living in the house for a long time: the mice Rasmus, Katja, Lea and Maximus, who've decorated everything for the holidays and don't want visitors. The house also brings back memories Peter would rather forget.

The mice fill the place with traps, and the humans hit back by calling in a pest controller who turns up in a van dressed as a cat. It becomes all out war over the house, even though the youngest in each family have already become friends and are starting to doubt the other side is the enemy.

Pål Sverre Hagen and Sara Khorami play the parents, with Flo Fagerli and Vegard Strand Eide as their kids and Jon Øigarden as the pest controller. In the Norwegian original, Jakob Oftebro, Charlotte Frogner, Vivild Falk Berg and Jonis Josef voice the mice. Susanne Skogstad wrote the script.

It opened in Norway in November 2025 and was the most watched Norwegian film in cinemas that year. Norwegian critics gave it very high marks, and at the Amanda Awards, the country's national film prizes, it picked up ten nominations and won best children's film and best visual effects.

• Comedy
• Family
• Christmas