Ah, the best-laid plans of mice and men …

We wanted to provide an accurate list of movies you might enjoy seeing, but the poofreader took a few days off, and the typist got a bit careless. Nevertheless, let’s see how many movie titles you can ferret out of these descriptions.

Here’s how it works: We provide false information on a movie, and, helped by a few clues, you conjure up the new title. For example, this movie stars Prof. John Forbes Nash, who ponders the loveliness of a chocolate confection of the kind you’ll find on your pillow in a fancy hotel. The answer: A Beautiful Mind becomes A Beautiful Mint.

E-mail or hand-deliver your answers, and if you have movie titles of your own, send them to one of these e-mail addresses: aartbt@rezio.net or atrujillo@lasvegasoptic.com. Each movie title will have at least one change, in spelling or pronunciation — or even an atrocious pun. Deadline: Noon Monday.

1. This movie, based on a book by John Carlin, stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. Before the World Cup rugby matches, some cops charge the players with crimes, and the local D.A. convinces a grand jury there’s enough evidence to take them to court.

2. In this 1955 animated flick, a couple of young men and their dogs go swimming too soon after eating and suffer the consequences.

3. This recent film with a one-word title is about an openly gay Bay Area politician whose meek ways and timid manners work against him.

4. Harrison Ford stars in this 1985 movie about a boy who sees a murder being committed. As Ford, going undercover, checks out the killing, he and the boy become drenched. Apparently, they fell victims to that old let’s-place-a-water-bucket-at-the-top-of-the-barn-door-frame trick.

5. An oversized pigskin-toting teen, accustomed to sleeping wherever he can, gets befriended by a wealthy Memphis couple. He has hopes of becoming a professional athlete, but first, he must go for a boring spin with the family in a 1975 Chevette.

6. Rob Reiner directed this cult satire about a heavy metal group of aging British rockers. So fervid are their concerts that most of the band members’ heads spin. The film came out in 1984.

7. This 2010 animated movie is about a Great Dane with a voracious appetite. But the sum of this dog’s previous actions causes him severe stomach distress, which stains the family carpet, requiring a quick cleanup.

8. Steve Carell and his wife masquerade as the Tripplehorns as they go out on the town. Their innocent bit of deception almost causes a couple of women to duke it out in this 2010 comedy.

9. This 2006 movie, directed by Michael Apted, deals with the abolition of slavery in 19th century Britain. That accomplished, they all sit down to enjoy a menudo barbecue that consists almost totally of lard. Some at the cookout find the fat-laced meal quite enjoyable.

10. Angelina Jolie reluctantly teams with Denzel Washington to catch a grisly serial killer. The murderer’s sideline is matching up people to others who own IRAs, stocks and annuities.

11. This 1980 miniseries, based on a book by John LeCarre, stars Alec Guinness. It features a veteran who comes out of retirement to work on a case. Unfortunately, as he exits an oil carrier, the seaman injures his upper body and needs countless steam baths to bring about a cure.

12. African American basketball players, including Lebron James, need to rise quite early to practice their hoops. All of this, of course, is to draw the attention of an attractive coed at their elite, largely Caucasian high school.

13. Gregory Peck stars as a southern lawyer who defends a man accused of a serious crime. And what illicit act did Brock Peters commit? Well, he concocted a Mexican mixed drink, which he named after one of our feathery friends.

14. Keanu Reeve’s interest in a lonely physician, played by Sandra Bullock, in this 2006 film gets frustrated when a crippled rodent is found in a mysterious mailbox that somehow bridges time.

15. Vladimir Nabokov wrote the book that inspired this 1962 movie about a too-young Latina teen who is absolutely crazy over Humbert Humbert.

16. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s career inspired this 2003 movie which includes barely discernible footage of the politician’s highly unusual canine with a non-stop tail.

17. This 2010 movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, and Andrew Garfield and involves a group of picky picky people who search for lousy organisms attached to some people’s hair. The group becomes wealthy in this endeavor.

18. Robert Duvall, a drifter who once was a well-known country-western singer, becomes involved with a lonely widow (Tess Harper). But before they can agree on nuptial plans, she needs to lose 50 pounds. And as another concession, she’ll have to outfit herself and her wedding party in skinny tops of basketball uniforms.

19. Don’t even try this unless you’re at least 105. In this ancient film, D. W. Griffith follows the Stoneman and Cameron families through the civil war. While on a train ride, one of the families offers its sleeping accommodations to an Oriental woman.

20. A man with a voracious appetite for meat has spent much time in prison in this 1991 thriller. As an inmate, played by Anthony Hopkins, he’s able to get an online M.S. degree in — of all things — determining the working parts of household lighting fixtures.