Rat

Entertaining comic fantasy clearly inspired by Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis which follows the fortunes of an ordinary working-class Dublin family when their fathercomes home from the pub one night and transforms into a rat. His shrewish wife is mostly angry and resentful at his lack of consideration, his children are alternately anxious and embarrassed, and his brother in law elaborates upon the scientific and zoological peculiarities of the situation. But when a reporter comes on the scene proposing to ghost-write a book about the family's heroic struggle to overcome their difficulties, things take a decidedly different turn. Egged on by the Wilmot, the family gradually begin to conspire to turn the situation to their advantage.

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