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Of Unknown Origin

5.4

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Original title

Of Unknown Origin

Year

1983

Running time

89 min.

Country

United States

Director

George Pan Cosmatos

Screenwriter

Brian Taggert. Novel: Chauncey G. Parker III

Cast

Music

Kenneth Wannberg

Cinematography

René Verzier

Producer

Warner Bros., CFDC

Genre

Horror

Synopsis

Bart Hughes (Peter Weller) has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife (Shannon Tweed), a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that promotion, unaware that a certain inhabitant of his basement has other plans for his time. Bart goes a bit bonkers trying to kill this rat, destroying most of his house in the process. Certain allegorical elements tie the household conflict to the "rat race" in his office, but the main event is certainly the night-and-day contest of wills between man and rodent.

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Of Unknown Origin

1983

George Pan Cosmatos

5.4

(427)