Willard

Director: Glen Morgan

2003 / 100min / 35mm

The second big-screen adaptation of Stephen Gilbert’s a-boy-and-his-rat yarn Ratman’s Notebooks stars the sublimely strange Crispin Hellion Glover as Willard Stiles, a social outsider who faces endless abuse at work and home, and finds an unlikely confidante in the form of a white rat he names Socrates—the first of an army of ravening rodents he will train to do his bidding, and wreak vengeance on the cruel human world. An unnerving and blackly comic work, with Glover at his sweaty, uncomfortable-in-his-skin finest.