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Ratboy: Directed by Sondra Locke. With Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Larry Hankin. Several shady and shallow people try to profit, one after the other, from a physically deformed teenager whose face looks like a snout of a rodent and who lives hidden in a city garbage dump, alone and miserable.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Sondra Locke
- 1986-10-17
Ratboy (1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
mjneu59 29 December 2010. The idea must have looked bizarre on paper: a poignant comedy-drama about a half-human, half-rodent orphan found living in an LA dump, groomed to be a media sensation, and exploited by various Hollywood hustlers in search of a quick buck.
Synopsis. A former window dresser named Nikki overhears mention of a mysterious "Ratboy" named Soma while dumpster diving at a dump. After finding and befriending him, Nikki makes several attempts at marketing his uniqueness to the public. At the same time, Soma wishes to avoid public attention.
“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. The rat boy lives in a garbage dump somewhere in the hills above Los Angeles, in a hovel furnished like a cross between a tree house and a rec room.
An out-of-work journalist (Sondra Locke) promotes a nervous little ratlike alien (S.L. Baird) for profit with a media blitz. Rent Ratboy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on...
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- Sci-Fi
- PG-13
Overview. A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money. Sondra Locke. Director. Rob Thompson. Writer.