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Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Mar 14, 2003
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Life has become one big trap for thirty-year-old Willard Stiles. Haunted by the ghost of his dead father and suffocated by the psychological cord that keeps him tied to his mother in their once stately home, Willard floats through life, unable to connect with those around him. An office clerk at Martin-Stiles Manufacturing, Willard only has a job because his late father made it a condition of his partnership with Frank Martin, who reminds Willard of this burden on a daily basis. But Willard has made an eerie discovery: he shares a powerful bond with the rats that dwell in his basement. Suddenly, Willard has friends--hundreds of them. A beautiful office temp, Cathryn, brought in by Mr. Martin to cover for Willard’s alleged incompetence, lends an understanding hand. But even she takes a back seat to Socrates, Ben, and the rest of the legion of rats that begin to infest the basement of the Stiles home and whom, seemingly even more vulnerable than himself, Willard is unable to kill. As the pressures upon Willard build and build, the foundation of his life begins to crack and the walls threaten to come crashing down. When Willard’s world is turned upside-down by tragedy, those responsible must answer to his rapidly growing pack of ravenous, fearsome friends. Beneath the surface a storm is brewing, and a darkness is about to be unleashed.
cast + crew
Director
Willard Stiles
Cathryn
Frank Martin
Henrietta Stiles
Detective Boxer
Dr Bludworth
Colquitt
George Foxx
Office Salmon
Ms. Leach
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
March 11, 2003
A triumph of rodent wrangling this tale of a weird guy and his rat wasn't much of a movie in 1971, and the story hasn't exactly blossomed with age. But nobody plays a sick twist better than Crispin Glover. This Willard lives with his whining mom, who wants to examine his stool ("Is it hard or loose?") and mocks him for suffering office abuse at the hands of his hard-ass boss (R. Lee Ermey). Laura Elena Harring (Mulholland Drive) is around to offer a few sexy glances. But the movie is about how
Willard gives new meaning to the line, ''You dirty rat''--in more detestable ways than one. Story A pathetic shell of a man, shy milquetoast Willard Stiles (Crispin Glover) leads a lonely life caring for his dying mother in their dirty and decrepit old mansion where his late father's portrait (of Bruce Davison, Willard in the 1971 original) hangs in gloomy watch over his urn of ashes, no lights are ever on and rats are overrunning the basement. He's got a miserable desk job working for the
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