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Willard

2003

Glen Morgan

Crispin Glover, Laura Elena Harring, Jackie Burroughs, R. Lee Ermey ...

5.2

2,248

Horror Life has become one big trap for 30-year-old Willard Stiles (Glover). 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Curiel SFGATE	"A fun (if you're in the mood for it), sometimes scary look at the life of a socially awkward man whose best friend is a white rodent"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	[It] looks better, moves faster and is more artistic than the original, but it doesn't work as a horror film (...) It has attitude and a look, but the rats aren't scary (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"You don’t go to a movie like 'Willard' for subtlety. You go to be skeeved out by rats, rats, and more rats, and I’m tempted to say that [it] does a fairly rat-tastic job of it. "
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The worst flaw of 'Willard' is a clunky tone-deaf screenplay (...) Barely a line flies by that doesn't land with a wooden thud."

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