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Willard

This is Willard and his friend Ben. Ben will do anything for Willard.

6.1(145)19711h 35m3

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
Part of Willard Collection · 2 films
  • based on novel or book
  • animal attack
  • revenge
  • murder
  • maniac
  • death
  • domineering mother
  • eaten alive
  • rat
  • eaten by rats

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Behind the camera

Director

Daniel Mann

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG30 Jul 1971
    • PhysicalPGVHS1 Jan 1985
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1619 Nov 1971
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical2 Jun 1972
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical18 Dec 1971

Frequently asked questions

Willard was released on 30 July 1971.

Audience reviews

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  • W

    Wuchak

    11/8/2019

    6/10

    ***A young loner finds that he connects with… rats*** A mama’s boy and meek misfit (Bruce Davison) befriends the rats that live behind his mother old manor and decides to use them to get back at his domineering boss (Ernest Borgnine) who usurped the business from his father. Sondra Locke is on hand as a coworker in one of her earliest roles. "Willard" (1971) is an odd mundane character study of a timid loner wi…

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