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  • 2003
  • TV-14
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2003
  • TV-14
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Socially inept and saddled with a miserable job, Willard shares a powerful bond with the rats who dwell in his basement. When Willard's world is turned upside down by tragedy, those responsible must answer to his rapidly growing pack of ravenous, fearsome friends. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: Glen Morgan

Written By: Gilbert Ralston, Stephen Gilbert, Glen Morgan

  • 2003
  • TV-14
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2003
  • TV-14
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 40 m

Willard

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
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Summary Socially inept and saddled with a miserable job, Willard shares a powerful bond with the rats who dwell in his basement. When Willard's world is turned upside down by tragedy, those responsible must answer to his rapidly growing pack of ravenous, fearsome friends. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: Glen Morgan

Written By: Gilbert Ralston, Stephen Gilbert, Glen Morgan

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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19% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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19% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Willard doesn’t try to be great art (although if you really think about it, there are plenty of themes borrowed from “Hamlet,” “The Birds” and “Frankenstein” to name a few). Willard just is.
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80
It only takes rat trainers and CGI artists to create swarms of vermin, but it takes a twisted kind of genius to treat them as equals.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
75
The new version is actually better. It's still a fairly ham-handed revenge-of-the-nerd horror fable, but 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 Willard does a fairly rat-tastic job of it.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Has plenty of dark horror style, but it lacks the weird charm of the 1971 original starring Bruce Davison...It's a nice homage.
By Bill Gallo FULL REVIEW
63
There is real wit in Glover's performance. And wit, too, in R. Lee Ermey's performance as the boss, which draws heavily on Ermey's real-life experience as a drill sergeant.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
The chills are functional at best and the attempts at pathos negligible.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
20
Everything that was modest, soundly grounded and therefore horrifying about the 1971 rodentarama that starred Bruce Davison is now insistent, Grand-Guignol-intense and therefore shrug-offable when it isn't downright awful.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
6.5
44% Positive
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50% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
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44% Positive
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50% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Production Company New Line Cinema, Hard Eight Pictures
Release Date Mar 14, 2003
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline A new breed of friendship.
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Awards

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 2 Nominations
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination

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