Of Unknown Origin
1983 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
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.
Direction George Pan Cosmatos
Cast Peter Weller · Jennifer Dale · Lawrence Dane · Kenneth Welsh · Louis Del Grande · Shannon Tweed · Keith Knight · Maury Chaykin · Leif Anderson · Jimmy Tapp · Gayle Garfinkle · Earl Pennington · Bronwen Mantel · Jacklin Webb · Monik Nantel
Soundtrack Kenneth Wannberg
Screenplay Brian Taggert · Chauncey G. Parker III
Cinematography René Verzier
Original title Of Unknown Origin
5.3
332 votes (FilmAffinity)
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