Willard is a 2003 film loosely based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Gilbert Ralston and the 1971 film Willard. It was not billed as a sequel by the producers, but as a re-working of the themes from the original, with a stronger focus on suspense.^*

Plot

Willard Stiles (played by Crispin Glover) is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta (Jackie Burroughs) in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Frank Martin (R. Lee Ermey). A co-worker Cathryn (Laura Harring) has feelings for the quirky Willard. Meanwhile, Willard quickly becomes obsessed with his friendship with a rat he names Socrates. Socrates has competition with a much larger rat named Ben. Nonetheless when Socrates is killed, Ben is more than willing to guide the army of basement rats to help Willard avenge himself upon his slave-driving boss, who has even more devious intentions to inflict on Willard, after firing him.

See also

• Willard (1971)
• Ben (1972)
• List of fictional mice and rats

External links

• Official site
• Fan site

2003 films American films | Drama films Thriller films | Films based on horror books