Wolf. 1994.
Publisher and chief editor Will Randall faces lossing his position to young protege Stewart Swinton. When he is bit by a wolf, his senses are heightened up and becomes more competitive and tries to get help from becoming the creature that bit him.
This is a new take on the "werewolf" genre, like the Lon Chaney film he doesn't want to be a werewolf yet Will played brilliantly by Jack Nicholson also doesn't want to have the instincts yet welcomes the senses and the job competitive side and the ideas that he didn't have before to save his job, like every animal there is always a pack leader.
Michelle Pfeiffer plays the young love interest Laura, who's father Raymond is taking over the publication company that Will works for and both have a strained father/daughter relationship and sees potential in James Spader's character Stewart. When bitten Stewart embraces the wolf side to him and shows how much a person can try to be dominant and competitive as a pack leader.
Rick Baker returns to another wolf film unlike An American Werewolf In London, Director Mike Nichols shows the change from human to wolf slowly and less painful. This isn't a full blown horror movie, it has got a killing of a deer it also has drama, suspense mixed in. After not seeing this since the VHS era, I kinda forgot David Hyde Pierce, Prunella Scales, Richard Jenkins and Om Puri made a appearance. The Indicator Blu-Ray release was well worth buying for picture and sound quality is a lot sharper than remembered.
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