Social misfit Willard Stiles, who cares for his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion, is constantly humiliated and mercilessly taunted in front of his co-workers by his vicious and cruel boss, Frank Martin, who took over the Stiles family company after Willard's father Alfred committed suicide in 1995. After discovering and failing to exterminate a growing rat colony in the basement, Willard befriends and quickly becomes obsessed with a white rat he names Socrates, considering him his only real friend.
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Drama, Horror, Thriller |
Country: | Canada, United States |
Produced By: | Richard Brener, Ken Halsband, Toby Emmerich, Bill Carraro, James Wong, Glen Morgan |
Directed By: | Glen Morgan |
Written By: | Stephen Gilbert, Glen Morgan, Gilbert Ralston |
Cast: | David Parker, Crispin Glover, Edward Horn, Ty Olsson, R. Lee Ermey, Jackie Burroughs, Gus Lynch, Kristen Cloke, William S. Taylor, Laura Harring, Ashlyn Gere, Laara Sadiq |
In Theaters: | Mar 14, 2003 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 40 minutes |
Production: | New Line Cinema, Hard Eight Pictures |
Budget: | $20,000,000 |
Box Office: | $6,886,089 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |