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Rat (2000)

Rat poster
Directed by
Steve Barron
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in a working class family turns into a rat. His wife and children figure out how to deal with this strange change.

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What happens

Rat is a 2000 comedy film directed by Steve Barron and starring Imelda Staunton and Pete Postlethwaite. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change. The film's scenario is partly based on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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