Willard
by Glen Morgan
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Actor: Crispin Glover, Laura Elena Harring, R. Lee ErmeyDirector: Glen Morgan
Brand: NLV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Published: 2003-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Willard
Movie Review: Tear it! Tear it up!
Summary: 5 Stars
Willard is a very unreckognized and unappreciated film. Only a few people like myself really understand the masterpeice of this film. If you are one of those people, you rule! However most people don't even give this movie a chance, they treat it as any other crummy rat movie. Willard is far more then a rat movie, Willard isn't really a horror movie, it is a PSYCOLOGICAL THRILLER. Since this is a psycological thriller i can understand how so many idiots can hate it, beacause it is beyond their intelligece to understand Willard and get into his head. The only element that creates horror are the rats and if you ask me, you have to be a real panzi to be afraid of those rats. Crispin Glover is AMAZING as Willard Stiles! Not to mention the great music.
Willard is stuck in a job given to him by his dead father who committed suicide. This is probably the ground-stone to Willard's problem. Willard is afraid. Willard is afraid to lose his job, get any friends, win anyone's effection, or to be alone. He is afraid of being alone yet, afraid to become emotionally involved with anyone, and his greatest fear of all is that his mother will someday leave him......And when this happens, everything happens. Willard loses his house,his only friend, a rat named Socrates, to his employer whom has always given Willard H*** everyday of his life, and even more worse, Willard is FIRED! What can he do? Willard has lost everyone he ever loved, his job-which he has had his entire life, always hated and never got ahead, and he is afraid of change, he is afraid to go off on his own and get a job and apartment because all Willard has ever know from the world is shun from others. So what can he do? What can THEY do? Kill his boss thats it!
Willard is now crazy and a murderer, but things are not any better, it gets worse and worse. The leader of the rats, Ben, is turning against him and neither man nor rat is his companion. Willard is alone, he is always alone and has always been alone.
This is a remake of the original Willard, and as good as the original is, this film surpasses it. The original was a horror movie basis, but the remake is so much more. Even the rats are better, I've heard from other reviewers on this site that Ben looked like a kangaroo rat freak (this animal is called a Gambian pounched rat)and the new ben is way better then the old one. The old movie neglected to show any emotion in the rats. Ben looks like a serial killer by himself when he sits on Willards bed staring him in the eyes, the old ben was some brown rat that looked like all the other rats, and showed next to no personality, I mean, as Willard was talking to him he would be looking in the opposite direction, bobbing his head around! However I'm not sure if i like the ending of the new Willard as much as the ending in the old one. Don't get me wrong, the original Willard was a great horror classic, but the new Willard goes much further then that.
This DvD is also very good, it gives you wide and full screen versions, extra featurettes and commentary, and a funny music video done by Crispin Glover, oh and the menu has a rat crawl accross it if you leave the screen alone, lol. Oh and if you are one of those movie lovers with too much time on your hands, like me, you might be interested to know that that big painting of Willard's father is Bruce Davison(Senator Kelly from X-Men)who played the original Willard Stiles in the original Willard!
I think Willard would have done better if the director kept it as an R movie then 14A(in Canada, as a matter of fact, this movie was filmed in good old Canada) because I cant vision many young people understanding this complex film, I think the director was good, but need to stay with his 1st instict and not let the company people tell him what to do. However the DvD has the origal scenes in it anyway, so you can kinda think of what you think would make the movie the best.
In conclusion, Willard is a very unappreciated film, it gets better and better the more you watch it, and its not your normal rat movie, (rats rule) so I encourage anyone who isn't a little whiner, to see this movie and really think as you watch it. I love this movie, in fact, i'm gunna go pop it in the DvD player right now!
Summary of Willard
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 04/03/07
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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