Of Unknown Origin

Of Unknown Origin (1983)

R 23 Nov 1983 • Horror, Thriller • 1h 28m
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Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, 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.

Brian Taggert, Chauncey G. Parker III
Writer
Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane
Starring

Language: English
Awards: 2 wins
Country: Canada
Metacritic Score: 51
DVD Release Date:
Box Office Total: $1,080,470

6.1

IMDb (3901 votes)
63%
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