History Film / Wolf

* MySensesAreShowing: After the bite, Will begins to manifest more canine-like mannerisms and his sight, hearing and smell enhance.

But then our hero discovers himself taking on animal characteristics and spending nights hunting deer in nearby forests, waking up at morning with hazy memory of the night's activities but plenty of blood on his hands to give him a hint. Will finally realizes what is going on. He is becoming a werewolf...and the process has just begun. Worse, he's not certain he hasn't been spreading his condition to others.

-->'''Michelle Pfeiffer''': Laura has always been the outcast, the black sheep within her family, ... And I think that the wildness within her is attracted to the newfound wildness in Will.

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Zig-zagged: After being bitten by a werewolf, Will Randall loses his white-collar job as editor-in-chief and finds out his wife is cheating on him (''with'' the guy who ousted him from his job). However, he soon embraces his newfound abilities, standing up to his boss, improving his work and sex life, getting his old job back and generally manages to bounce back better than ever...when he's not going feral every other night and savaging/accidentally turning the townsfolk into werewolves, that is.

->''Within every man, there are two men. One who learns to be civilized by day. One who longs to be savage by night. If any man could be both at once, he'd have to be daring...he'd have to be dangerous...he'd have to be...[[Creator/JackNicholson Jack]]''.

* WomaninBlack: Laura wears a black short sleeved vest, long sleeved white blouse, black knee length skirt, white pantyhose and black high heels [[spoiler:when she discovers Will chained to the radiator in his hotel room.]]

* EvilIsSexy: Stewart and Will both become sultry and seductive in a dark, primal way when they start growing more wolf-like.

* YourCheatingHeart: Charlotte, Will's wife, gets caught sleeping with Stewart.

The film starts with featuring Will Randall (Nicholson), the aging managing editor of an influential publishing house. His skills have somewhat diminished with age, and his disloyal protege, Stewart Swinton (Creator/JamesSpader), has taken full advantage. Their employer, tycoon Raymond Alden (Creator/ChristopherPlummer), announces Will's demotion in favor of Stewart, while Will's wife Charlotte (Kate Nelligan) has started an affair with Stewart.

* YourCheatingHeart: Charlotte cheats on Will who, in turns, falls for Laura, though the marriage probably had gone stale. Well, Will did turn to his wife first with his renewed sexual energy, but he quickly found he didn't like cheaters.

* RetroactiveRecognition: In the same year that he begins his StarMakingRole on {{Series/Friends}}, ''Creator/DavidSchwimmer'' has a bit part as a nameless cop.

* {{Jerkass}}: Stewart, who is a also an odious SmugSnake.

-->'''Will Randall''': You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful, but you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn. I know you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath but the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautiful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

* WorkingClassWerewolves: Zig-zagged: After being bitten by a werewolf, Will Randall loses his white collar job as an editor-in-chief and finds out his wife is cheating on him (''with'' the guy who ousted him from his job). However, he soon embraces his newfound abilities, standing up to his boss, improving his work and sex life, getting his old job back and generally manages to bounce back better than ever...when he's not going feral every other night and savaging/accidentally turning the townsfolk into werewolves, that is.

* NobodyPoops: Averted. Will and Stewart are using the urinals together. Will (who is becoming a werewolf) pees on Stewart's shoes and says, "I'm just marking my territory, and you got in my way."

-->'''[[spoiler:Laura]]:''' [[MeaningfulEcho "I can smell it a mile away."]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Laura:]]"I can smell it a mile away."

* AttemptedRape: Laura is on the brunt of being raped by Stewart, until Will manages to put a stop to that.

->'''Narration from the teaser trailer'''.