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Ratboy

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An out-of-work journalist (Sondra Locke) promotes a nervous little ratlike alien (S.L. Baird) for profit with a media blitz.
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Keith Phipps The Dissolve 01/26/2015
1.5/5
The film gestures at whimsy and heartbreak while making the broadest possible comments about Hollywood and how the machinery of fame grinds up the innocent. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
2/4
Ratboy is a perplexing movie about a perplexing hero - a little creature that is half human and half rat and combines all of the least interesting characteristics of both species. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/29/2005
2/5
Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review 01/01/2005
2/5
You'd think Locke would have learned SOMETHING from Clint Eastwood. Go to Full Review
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) 08/04/2004
3/5
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) 11/12/2002
2/5
Astonishing what you can do if you're Clint Eastwood's girlfriend. Go to Full Review
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10/31/2015 It's "Howard the Ratboy" without the stupid ending like 1986's "Howard the Duck" as this film basically uses the same predictable premise except this time it's a lonely single woman discovering a boy like rat instead of a duck. Of course, the ratboy teaches the woman about love and life. See more 04/19/2013 What a boring turd of a movie and I only gave it a star and a half because of the great make up job and some of the cameo's by some unknown actors at the time.Actors like Bill Mahr,john Lovitz,john witherspoon,Robert Townsend and Louis Anderson made early film appearances in this festering asshole of a motion picture. I guess when you're Clint Eastwoods girlfriend all it takes is tickling ole Clints taint with your tongue to get your own director gig. I'm guessing that's how Sandra Locke got this because if you look at her filmography almost all of her stuff has something to do with Clint Eastwood which says to me that she couldn't get anything on her own. See more 10/21/2012 This movie is very boring! Don't waste your time if you ever happen to stumble upon a copy, See more 10/24/2011 Quite possibly the worst movie of all time. Sandra Locke is atrocious! See more 07/17/2011 What a boring turd of a movie and I only gave it a star and a half because of the great make up job and some of the cameo's by some unknown actors at the time.Actors like Bill Mahr,john Lovitz,john witherspoon,Robert Townsend and Louis Anderson made early film appearances in this festering asshole of a motion picture. I guess when you're Clint Eastwoods girlfriend all it takes is tickling ole Clints taint with your tongue to get your own director gig. I'm guessing that's how Sandra Locke got this because if you look at her filmography almost all of her stuff has something to do with Clint Eastwood which says to me that she couldn't get anything on her own. See more 06/23/2011 Simply dreadful. Sondra Locke (who also directed) plays an opportunistic LA woman who discovers a half human/half rat "boy" and decides to exploit him. Sondra is unlikable. Ratboy is unlikable. The whole thing is ridiculous. File this one under "What were they thinking?" Wait - I know what they were thinking. Sondra (who is not a particularly good actress) was Clint Eastwood's girlfriend at the time once again proving: It's not what you know, but who you blow. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An out-of-work journalist (Sondra Locke) promotes a nervous little ratlike alien (S.L. Baird) for profit with a media blitz.
Director
Sondra Locke
Producer
Fritz Manes
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.9K
Runtime
1h 44m
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