Rat is a 2000 Irish/British/American comedy film directed by Steve Barron. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change. After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert's family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson to Hubert and that the reason he transformed is his own fault. Their son Pius , destined for a religious life, feels that because his father is... now an animal, his family should kill him. Their daughter Marietta feels that the rat is still her father and that they should treat him with love and respect. After hearing the news of a man changing into a rat on the local radio, ghostwriter Phelim Spratt convinces Conchita to write a book of the story.
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| Release date: | April 27, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Steve Barron |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Producer: | Brian Henson, Alison Owen |
| Estimated budget: | $1,500,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Fantasy |