Willard (Blu-ray) PG-13
When the cat's away, the rats will play.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: February 26, 2019
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Crispin Glover | |
Performer: | R. Lee Ermey & Jackie Burroughs | |
Directed by | Glen Morgan | |
Screenwriting by | Glen Morgan | |
Composition by | Shirley Walker | |
Produced by | James Wong & Bill Carraro | |
Director of Photography: | Robert McLachlan |
Entertainment Reviews:
In a culture clogged with appropriated effluvia and remake cop-outs, Willard is wittier and nastier than we deserve.
Village Voice
...Nobody plays a sick twist better than Crispin Glover....Want your skin to crawl' This one's for you...
Rolling Stone
[Y]ou got a real opportunity here to do something really funny -- because Crispin Glover is really fun -- and something scary, but the rats, I guess, aren't up to the task.
Ebert & Roeper
Glen Morgan's direction has the quirky stylisation of a kid's movie -- think MOUSEHUNT gone seriously wrong.
Uncut
Rating: 2/4 --
This new incarnation of Willard emphasizes one thing: no matter how bad the original was, it didn't need to be remade.
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ReelViews
Never scares, never pulls off enough tension, and the rats are bland.
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 3/4 --
For all its ickiness, Willard is actually that most exotic of movie creatures: a remake that handily bests the original.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
Glen Morgan's WILLARD stars Crispin Glover in the title role as a socially awkward loner who lives with his ailing mother (Jackie Burroughs) in a decrepit old house. Trapped between duties at home and working at a dreary company formerly owned by his deceased father, Willard leads a bleak and routine existence until he befriends Socrates, an albino rat living in the basement. This new friendship leads to an affinity for the ever-growing rodent population under his house, and soon Willard discovers the rats will do anything he tells them. When Willard is pushed too far by his bullying boss (R. Lee Ermey), he decides to use his four-legged companions to get revenge.
A perfect pairing of actor and character, Glover is ideal as Willard in this Burton-esque remake of the 1971 cult horror film. Widely known as an introvert and eccentric in real life, Glover expertly transfers his quirks to Willard in a giddily affected performance that ranges from subdued to outraged. Ermey (of FULL METAL JACKET) and Laura Elena Harring (of MULHOLLAND DRIVE) provide excellent support as his dictatorial boss and concerned coworker, respectively, but the true costars of this thriller are two rodents, the affectionate Socrates and the imposing, cat-sized Ben. Although some of the rat scenes are rendered with animatronics or CGI animation, the majority of Glover's scenes with Socrates and Ben involve real animal actors who convey distinct personalities and factor heavily into the story. The clever and darkly comic script even manages to bring in an element of the original film by featuring photos and paintings of Bruce Davison, star of the earlier film, as Willard's dead father. And be sure to listen for both a young Michael Jackson and Glover himself singing WILLARD's adopted theme song, "Ben."
A perfect pairing of actor and character, Glover is ideal as Willard in this Burton-esque remake of the 1971 cult horror film. Widely known as an introvert and eccentric in real life, Glover expertly transfers his quirks to Willard in a giddily affected performance that ranges from subdued to outraged. Ermey (of FULL METAL JACKET) and Laura Elena Harring (of MULHOLLAND DRIVE) provide excellent support as his dictatorial boss and concerned coworker, respectively, but the true costars of this thriller are two rodents, the affectionate Socrates and the imposing, cat-sized Ben. Although some of the rat scenes are rendered with animatronics or CGI animation, the majority of Glover's scenes with Socrates and Ben involve real animal actors who convey distinct personalities and factor heavily into the story. The clever and darkly comic script even manages to bring in an element of the original film by featuring photos and paintings of Bruce Davison, star of the earlier film, as Willard's dead father. And be sure to listen for both a young Michael Jackson and Glover himself singing WILLARD's adopted theme song, "Ben."
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