
The Big Cheese
Animation · Horror · Fantasy
Overview
Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse heroes.
Top Cast
Aloisa Eva
Aloisa Eva
Farmers Wife
Aloisa Eva
Farmers Wife
Sam Perkins
Sam Perkins
Farmers Wife as a young girl
Sam Perkins
Farmers Wife as a young girl
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