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	Willard (1971)
		Willard is a white-collar worker employed by an angry and arrogant boss (Borgnine), who stole the family business from Willard's now-deceased dad.
		Willard eventually uses the intelligent rats to wreck one of Borgnine's parties, setting the stage for you guessed it murder.
		Willard finally sicks his red-eyed friends on Borgnine in an orgy of rat violence.
	www.esplatter.com /reviewsttoz/willard.htm (409 words)

	USCCB Reviews - Willard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The original 1971 "Willard," a nasty B-grade horror film about an oppressed misfit whose only friends are an ever-growing army of rats, was not a movie that cried out for a remake.
		Willard's galling exchanges with his monstrous mother are clearly meant to evoke the kind of relationship Norman Bates must have had with his mother while she was alive.
		Although Willard's persecutors are as utterly lacking in redeeming qualities as the nasty characters from a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, the film never forgets that Willard himself, though the main character, isn't the hero.
	www.nccbuscc.org /movies/w/willard.htm (1035 words)

	Willard Movie Review
		As Willard becomes increasingly unhinged by tragedy in his personal life and further humiliation in the workplace, he begins to look upon his growing army of rats as both a source of strength and a method of revenge.
		Willard's family house is a character in the film, and I applaud production designer Mark Freeborn and set decorator Mark Lane with making the residence feel like a real place and not a studio set.
		She doesn't wallow in the mire that is Willard's world, but instead gives us a rather bouncy, somewhat retro score that gives the film a lot of personality that it might not have had if Morgan and Wong had chosen a more depressed composer.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/livewire/willardreview.htm (1097 words)

	SOUNDWAVES CINEMA: Willard (2003)
		One interesting twist reveals that the 2003 version of WILLARD may be, in fact, a sequel to the original and not a remake: It's Bruce Davison's face in the portrait as Willard's deceased father.
		Willard is the Dr. Dolittle of the rodent kingdom.
		Willard's boss is Frank Martin, played by R. Lee Ermey, who may be getting long in the tooth, but still can cuss somebody out better than most.
	soundwavescinema.com /Cinema/2003/Willard.htm (567 words)

	Printer version: `Willard': Ben there, done that (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 1971 horror movie "Willard" holds a unique place in film lore: The sequel is much better known than the original.
		Willard appears mild-mannered, but if you look closely, you notice that his eyes never stop their nervous darting.
		Willard flirts with an office coworker (Laura Elena Harring, "Mulholland Drive"), but as soon as those scenes are over, he retreats to his cellar and his beloved rodents.
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	WILLARD movie review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sure enough there are rats a plenty but Willard assures his mother there are none, trying to shield her from the unpleasant news.
		The movie includes several great lines, but my favorite comes when a lawyer tells Willard he may have to sell his house to pay off some of his father’s old debts.
		When Willard helps his hideously ugly mother sit up in bed and her face comes right at the camera, filling the screen, people in the theater cringed.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/VWX/Willard.html (632 words)

	Willard Official Movie Site: Production Notes and Behind the Scenes Trivia Information
		The rats are a manifestation of Willard’s anger.
		There is the contemplation of suicide: Willard’s ‘to be or not to be’ scene.” But while Willard may borrow much from tragedy, it still remains a horror film, blending psychological suspense with what Glover calls “the heightened fantasy element” of killer rats.
		Built in the style of the late 1800s, the house reflects the grandeur and emotional idealism of that age—or at least the illusion of it—yet its furnishings are from the 1970s, indicative of when things took a turn for the worse for the Stiles family.
	www.willardmovie.com /html/movie_production.html (704 words)

	Willard Movie Review
		Crispen Glover plays Willard (a creepy role that the creepy actor was creepily born to play), a put-upon, milquetoast young man who hates his life.
		The movie begins when Willard’s flem-spitting hag of a mother (played to flem-spitting perfection by Jackie Burroughs) orders her milquetoast son to the basement to kill the invading rats.
		The majority of the movie, aside from disgusting shots of rats running all over the place (more on that later) is about the passive-aggressive power struggle between Willard, Socrates, and Ben.
	www.bobfromaccounting.com /movies/willard.html (1002 words)

	Willard (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His character, Willard, is a mix between Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates and Adam Sandler's Barry Anderson from "Punch-Drunk Love." I half-expected to see Willard's mother jump out in front of the screen at some point in the film, only for "her" to be Willard.
		Willard (Glover) is a grown man who lives in a large, creepy home with his bitter old mother.
		By charming Socrates, it seems that Willard opened up a sort of psychic connection between the rats, and the way he carries them around on his shoulder, and says to Socrates, "You are the only friend I've ever had," is strangely disturbing.
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	Human Events: Willard
		SUMMARY: Willard is the remake of a 1971 movie and is about a friendless young man who uses his control over a bunch of rats to get revenge.
		Designed for a teenage audience, Willard is creepy enough to draw the children, yet probably should be avoided for its violence, foul language and horrible depictions of death by rat-bite.
		Willard is despised by Martin, screamed at daily and told that he will lose his job the moment his mother dies.
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	Willard
		Willard (Glover) lives with his mother (Jackie Burroughs, A Guy Thing, Lost and Delirious), an old harpy.
		Because Willard feels tormented both at work and at home, he is often a cowering fool.
		Willard is not a great movie, and is probably not even a good one, but it is different enough to merit watching, especially for Glover.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/willard.html (576 words)

	TNMC Movie Reviews: Willard
		Furthermore, director Morgan's usage of the imagery of Willard as a caged animal was a nice touch, him being trapped inside an elevator, his own home and eventually in a mental institution.
		Since it was never explained how Willard was able to form a bond with the rats, it was hard to accept how this pack of wild rodents would be trainable and obey him just because he fed them on a daily basis.
		Laura Elena Harring's Cathryn was the only character that tried to reach out to Willard, however, her affection and sympathy towards him seemed out of place and puzzling especially in the cynical surroundings Willard found himself in.
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	James Sanford reviews Willard (1971)
		Released in the summer of 1971, "Willard" scared up a then-impressive $19 million at the box office (in the days when the average ticket cost a whopping $1.65) and, if memory serves, scared the living daylights out of most of my friends.
		When Willard is not at the office being belittled and mocked by Martin, he's at home in a crumbling castle with Henrietta, an invalid who nags him about doing his chores and expects him to wait on her.
		Willard is temporarily distracted from his new project by the attentions of Joan (Sondra Locke), a temp in a mini-skirt and foot-long false eyelashes who makes overtures to him -- for reasons no one watching the film could ever rationalize.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/2003/willard71.html (709 words)

	Willard Movie Review
		Willard is an odd little film that had me curious for a couple of reasons.
		Extremely withdrawn and virtually unable to cope with the world around him, Willard befriends a rather large pack of rats who've been living in his cellar, despite his mother's plea to get rid of the noisy little beasts.
		Willard (the movie) certainly has it's share of problems.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Willard at Epinions.com
		What the funny part of this movie was when his boss who was a middle aged man came over to his house for dinner and how they had gotten into one of their disagreements.
		Then the part came when Willard went to look for a new car and when he did, he took along Ben for the trip and Ben had to be stored in Willard's brief case so that nobody can see him.
		Willard ended up getting rid of the kitten because he probably thought that it was just going to be a big problem, especially, with his pet rat Ben.
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	3BlackChicks Review™... WILLARD (Cass)
		Willard checks the basement, and shonuf; at first glance, there are a couple of rats down there.
		Willard discovers that he has a knack for communicating with these rodents and trains them to rip apart paper, tires, other prey, including humans.
		The only reason Willard is employed there is because of a clause his father included as part of a contractual agreement with Mr.
	www.3blackchicks.com /2003reviews/casswillard.html (908 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Willard (2003), Glen Morgan, Crispin Glover, Laura Elena Harring, dvd review
		But Willard is only interested in his new friends, the rats he has found in the basement of his family's giant, crumbling house.
		Willard quickly finds that the rats will do his bidding, and so he uses them to get revenge on Mr.
		Willard decides he wants to remain friends only with Socrates, but Ben and his followers do not prove terribly easy to get rid of.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2003/willard03.shtml (956 words)

	Reviews: Willard - Christianity Today Movies
		Willard is a grown man who still lives like an abused child at home, plagued by an ailing mother who constantly assails him with critical remarks and oppressive worrying.
		Like Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Glover's Willard is one of those rare roles in which the actor seems to have been born for the part.
		He says the movie is "decidedly not for all tastes," but that it "effectively works on the audiences' nerves where so many horror films deliver only gross-outs." Greydanus concludes, "The original … was not a movie that cried out for a remake.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/willard.html (955 words)

	Willard Reviews
		WILLARD (director/writer/producer: Glen Morgan; screenwriters: Gilbert Ralston from Mr.
		Willard Stiles (Crispin Glover) lives in the rundown family manse with his bedridden mother (Jackie Burroughs).
		WILLARD, a remake of the 1971 horror movie by the same name, is, well, unusual.
	www.killermovies.com /w/willard/reviews (407 words)

	The Last Cycle - Kult Forums
		Social recluse Willard Styles cares for his invalid mother whilst trying to hold down a job.
		Willard is made to feel worthless by his boss, his fathers former business partner who has taken control of the business.
		The house is visited by rats and at first Willard resolves to remove them but instead has a change of heart befriending one of them and naming it Socrates.
	www.kult-rpg.com /forum/viewthread.php?tid=544 (188 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Willard : Review
		Willard is a remake of a 1971 movie of the same name about a man (also of the same name) who talks to rats.
		The pictures of Willard's father we see are of Bruce Davison, the actor who played Willard in the original, and there are two versions of the ode-to-my-pet-rat song 'Ben', the original by the Jackson 5, and to a great interpretation by Crispin Glover that runs over the end credits.
		Willard's other strength is its atmospheric visuals, from the twitchy 'Quay Brothers do the Addams Family' opening titles sequence, to the iron gates, sweeping wood banisters, grim spare spaces and seedy dark places.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=1746 (1040 words)

	Glover seems a natural for the gentle oddball 'Willard'
		LOS ANGELES--In the 1971 horror movie ''Willard,'' Bruce Davison played a social misfit tormented by insensitive co-workers until he found unlikely allies in an army of rats and got his revenge.
		Glover, 38, was aware of the original ''Willard,'' which spawned a mini-craze for pet rats when it was released, but hadn't seen it until he was approached to star in the remake.
		Willard's situation in the human world and Ben's position among the rats grow increasingly parallel.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/wkp-news-glover14north.html (940 words)

	RollingStone.com: Willard Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A triumph of rodent wrangling this tale of a weird guy and his rat wasn't much of a movie in 1971, and the story hasn't exactly blossomed with age.
		This Willard lives with his whining mom, who wants to examine his stool ("Is it hard or loose?") and mocks him for suffering office abuse at the hands of his hard-ass boss (R. Lee Ermey).
		But the movie is about how Willard finds someone to love in Socrates, an albino rat in his basement, and an enemy in Ben, a brown rat the size of a dog who wrangles every rodent in his wide acquaintance to wreak havoc on Willard's boss.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/_/id/5949437 (179 words)

	Willard Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Willard Stiles (Glover), a 30-year-old man who lives with his decrepit mother, Henrietta (Jackie Burroughs) and works as an office clerk at the company of his dead father (Bruce Davison, only seen in a portrait), feels lonely and trapped.
		She takes pity on Willard and seems to want to help him with his problems (she gives him a cat at one point to help cure his loneliness.) Her help doesn’t seem to work, but the help of the rats does by assisting Willard with his building rage.
		Willard soon realizes that he is in a power struggle with Ben, but he can’t find it in himself to take the cat-sized rat out.
	www.entertainyourbrain.com /willardrev.htm (778 words)

	Willard (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Willard Stiles (Bruce Davison) is a shy young man in his mid-20's.
		Willard has no problem putting the creepiness of having unusually intelligent rats, commanded by a social outcast no less, in the back of your head...make that a thousand or so rats that the camera makes sure you see every time.
		Still, as creature features go, Willard is halfway towards becoming a pretty good one; in any case, it's a masterpiece compared to its sequel, Ben.
	www.ajhakari.com /w/willard1971.html (607 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		G: But in the way it treats the mom, this movie has a total terror of old age, of mortality, her grungy toenails, the horrible slime coming out of her mouth.
		She is ugly, but the most important thing is that Willard still loves her and takes care of her.
		That movie would be more successful because there’d be a higher body count.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=74721 (851 words)

	WILLARD - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		This is Willard: stuck in the 1970s, stuck in adolescence.
		Martin lulls Willard into a false sense of security and then, when Willard is just about relaxed and becoming unaware, moves in and grabs him by the throat and just chokes the hell out of him." The abuse takes many forms—verbal harassment, public chastisement, financial penalties—each calculated for maximum damage.
		I think it’s known that Willard is not relating with the culture.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=2037 (2466 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Willard (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Willard is a lonely young man who lives in a huge mansion from days gone by with his decaying, elderly mother (Jackie Burroughs).
		If anything this remake of "Willard" is too slick for its own good and there is a point where an army of computer generated rats cannot help but remind you that it is computer generated (as opposed to being the work of rat wranglers).
		Willard lives with his mother, is anti-social, works at a company that used to be his father's, is shy, and just plain strange.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AZT78?v=glance (2231 words)

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