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Actors: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Shannon Tweed
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Of Unknown Origin
OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN is a movie directed by George P. Cosmatos in 1983.

Bart Hughes's wife and kid left home to spend a week on vacation in Vermont. Bart plans to use this quiet period to work 18 hours a day on an important professional project. On the same night, a rat comes in the house. Bart will use the latest traps and poisons in order to kill the rodent but fails. So he decides to declare a total war to the animal and shuts himself up in his house. Three days later, the house is nearly completely destroyed, the rat still alive and the animal starts to attack Bart Hughes.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Of Unknown Origin
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999
Horror film? Yes
Horror Plotlets: - The hungry animal ate me!

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - business executive
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - emotionally unstable
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - short/standard straight (man)
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - animal
Has special powers? Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York
Misc setting - building

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 0 (not a murder mystery)
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing
Kind of violence: - mission to destroy something
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a - book
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