The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!

195983 min6.3 / 10

A lighthearted Cold War satire that uses absurdist logic and fish-out-of-water comedy to gently mock geopolitics and military posturing.

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

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