This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats.

To teach them to climb up his pants for the 2003 movie "Willard," multiple rats had to repeat the task over and over again at different angles. Mark Harden: At the beginning, we certainly want to ...

Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from ...