A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Glen Morgan(screenplay)
- Gilbert Ralston(1971 screenplay)
- Stephen Gilbert(book "Ratman's Notebooks")
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Glen Morgan(screenplay)
- Gilbert Ralston(1971 screenplay)
- Stephen Gilbert(book "Ratman's Notebooks")
- Stars
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
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- Director
- Writers
- Glen Morgan(screenplay)
- Gilbert Ralston(1971 screenplay)
- Stephen Gilbert(book "Ratman's Notebooks")
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard then finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Mr. Frank Martin, a vicious man whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one. —Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
- Taglines
- Where your nightmares end... WILLARD begins.
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for terror/violence, some sexual content and language
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaThere have been reports that the enormous rat Ben was not portrayed by an actual rat, which is not true. Ben was played by a Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), a distant relative of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), the species used in the film. Gambian pouched rats, while fairly docile, can grow to a body length of as much as 10-17 inches from the head to the base of the tail, with the tail about the same length or longer, and can generally weigh anywhere from two to over six pounds.
- GoofsIn the funeral home scene, when Joseph Carter first walks in, we see him from the waist down and he is wearing a long blue coat. When we see a full shot of Carter, he is neither wearing or carrying a long blue coat. Mr. Martin, outside, is wearing the coat we originally see.
- Quotes
Willard: You stole this company from my father. It killed him and it killed my mother and now you're trying to kill me. You're trying to take my house. You made a fool of me in front of everybody. You made me hate myself. I thought about it a lot, hating myself. Well right now, at this moment, I LIKE myself.
- Crazy creditsSecond Unit Chef Dave Carlson's credit is listed as: Caterer to the Stars...DAVID CARLSON
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Year of the Rat (2003)
- SoundtracksBen
Written by Walter Scharf and Don Black
Performed by Jackson 5
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Top review
Strange and different, but not particularly scary
Maybe self-parody isn't such a bad word in the case of Willard. While I will state that the film was funny and interesting to watch, it wasn't nearly as twisted or as scary as it could have been. But then again, it's so damn tough to scare the jaded masses of critics and movie goers anyway. However, I did find this film wildly entertaining, especially the likes of Glenn Morgan and James Wong helming the project, two guys who helped put together The X-Files and Space: Above and Beyond (a truly underrated show). The only downside to this film was the editing. It was sometimes dull, and often did little to help the plot move in a smooth fashion. However, the random close-ups of the rat/wombat "Big Ben" were hillarious, making it look like the rat would actually start talking. Also, I give a big kudos to R. Lee Ermey, who went back to his old Full Metal Jacket days, making him a scary and evil bad guy to focus on. Oh, and Crispin Glover plays the loser role perfectly.
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- Agent10
- Mar 14, 2003
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,886,089
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,000,000
- Mar 16, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $8,564,586
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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