Willard
By: New Line Cinema presents a Hard Eight Pictures production ; produced by James Wong, Glen Morgan ; screenplay by Glen Morgan ; directed by Glen Morgan
Contributors: Glover, Crispin; Ermey, Lee; Harring, Laura, 1964-; Burroughs, Jackie; Gere, Ashlyn, 1959-; Taylor, William S.; Horn, Edward; Lynch, Gus; Sadiq, Laara; McLachlan, Robert; Coblentz, James; Walker, Shirley, 1945-2006; Mah, Gregory; Freeborn, Mark; Gilbert, Stephen, 1912-2010; Ralston, Gilbert A., 1912-1999; New Line Cinema Corporation; Hard Eight Pictures (Firm); New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)
Series: New Line platinum series; New Line platinum series
Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Drama; Training; Rats; Supervisors; Rats as pets
Work titles: Willard (Motion picture : 2003)
Description: Willard has been picked on and pushed around his whole life and is a twentysomething man who still lives at home with his nagging mother. He works at a shipping company for a stern, authoritarian supervisor. When Willard becomes fascinated with a hidden nest of rats living in his decrepit home, they become both his friends and his aggressors. He sics them upon anyone who crosses his path. But one rat, Ben, isn't so amenable to Willard's orders, and a horrifying test of wills begins.
Notes: Based on the screenplay by Gilbert Ralston; based on the book Ratman's notebooks by Stephen Gilbert.

Special features: widescreen and full screen presentations; 12 deleted/alternate scenes with optional commentary (26 min.); theatrical trailer (2 min.); TV spots (2 min.); "Year of the rat"--A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 'Willard' (73 min.); "Rat people"--a documentary on real rats (19 min.); Crispin Glover "Ben" music video (3 min.); optional commentary by director Glen Morgan, producer James Wong, Crispin Glover and R. Lee Ermey; DVD-ROM/online features.

Director of photography, Robert McLachlan ; editor, James Coblentz ; music, Shirley Walker ; costume designer, Gregory Mah ; production designer, Mark Freeborn.

Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Elena Harring, Jackie Burroughs, Kimberly Patton, William S. Taylor, Edward Horn, Gus Lynch, Laara Sadiq.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for terror/violence, some sexual content and language.

DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby surround, Dolby digital, DTS.

English Dolby 5.1 surround sound or stereo surround sound; English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Year of the rat  -- New Line Home Entertainment; title: Rat people, friends and foes -- produced and directed by David Naylor ; written by Michael T. Jarvis, David Naylor ; New Line Home Entertainment.