Sondra Locke directs and stars in yet another tale of an exploited misfit. This time it’s a half boy, half rat creature (SL Baird) and again we have the archetypal outsider being exposed and promoted as a weird commercial fairground attraction.
Plucked from the comfort of his Hollywood rubbish dump into a media circus, Ratboy is “rescued” by Locke, who is posing as a journalist. Her motives aren’t altruistic though, as she has her own plans to exploit her media-friendly protégé.
Unlike ET, Ratboy isn’t cute and won’t tug on your heartstrings which may leave you indifferent as to his plight.
Nikki Morrison
Sondra Locke Manny
Robert Townsend Acting coach
Christopher Hewett Jewell
Larry Hankin “Dial-a-Prayer”
Sydney Lassick Billy Morrison
Gerrit Graham Omer Morrison
Louie Anderson Ratboy
S L Baird
Director
Sondra Locke
Related Posts
Short Circuit (1986) Energised by a freak power overload, a robot called No. 5 springs to life in NOVA Laboratories (a shady research…
Return of the Fly (1959) Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre (Brett Halsey) and his uncle François (Vincent Price)…
Fair Game (1986) Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) is a young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback who comes into confrontation with…
Flashdance (1983) Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, an 18-year-old welder in a Pittsburgh steel mill who moonlights as an exotic dancer…
An American Tail (1986) Seeking to dethrone Disney as the king of animated features, a young mouse named Fievel roared into cinemas in 1986's An…
Bronco Billy (1980) Clint Eastwood directed this light and pleasing adventure comedy about a group of misfits who choose to live out their…
Dead and Buried (1981) "Welcome to Potters Bluff" Tourists and visitors to the sleepy coastal town of Potters Bluff, Maine, are being brutally murdered…
Top Gun (1986) If you survive the noise, the moronic script, the ego-trip smirking of the actors, and the nauseating sound track, you…
