Wolf

Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.

• Director:Mike Nichols
• Genre:Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller
• Runtime:125 minutes

Cast

Jack Nicholson : Will Randall
Michelle Pfeiffer : Laura Alden
James Spader : Stewart Swinton
Kate Nelligan : Charlotte Randall
Richard Jenkins : Detective Bridger

Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is bitten by a wolf while driving home on a country road in Vermont. Shortly afterwards, he is demoted from his job as editor in chief of a publishing house when the company is taken over by wealthy business tycoon Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer), who replaces him with Will’s own protegé Stewart Swinton (James Spader). Stewart also happens to be having an affair with Will’s wife Charlotte (Kate Nelligan). The former editor-in-chief soon starts to feel revitalized, and becomes more aggressive and assertive, taking on the characteristics of a wolf.

With the help of Alden’s headstrong daughter Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer), Will sets out for the new life ahead of him. His first escapade as a werewolf takes place at Laura’s countryside cottage, where he wakes up in the middle of the night and predatorily hunts down a deer. In the morning Will finds himself on the bank of a forest stream, dunks his head in water and realizes he has blood all over his face and hands.

He visits an Indian healer, Dr. Vijav Alezais (Om Puri), who gives him an amulet intended to protect him from turning completely into a wolf. Alezais asks Will to bite him as a return favour, as Alezais himself does not have long to live, and would prefer “demonization to death.”

Will’s professional life is gradually restored and, in his aggressive avatar, he fires his young nemesis Stewart, deepening the hatred between the two. Will inadvertently bites Stewart, who then becomes a wolf and subsequently murders Charlotte Randall. In the police investigation, Stewart ends up attempting to frame Will in order to seize his job at the publishing house again.

Horrified that it might have been his alter-ego that killed her, Will goes back with Laura to her cottage, where he agrees to be locked up in the barn. Laura gets a call from Detective Bridger (Richard Jenkins) who is investigating Charlotte’s murder, and learns that it was a canine attack that killed her. Alarmed that Will might be the unknowing perpetrator, Laura goes alone to the police station to find out more. There she runs into Stewart, who makes an animal-like pass at her, revealing himself to also be affected by the wolf-changes Will is affected by. Laura hurries off from the station, making arrangements for her and Will to leave the country. Read more

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