Film

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6.020001h 29mPGDrama Fantasy Comedy Family

United Kingdom · United States · Ireland

Age rating: PG
Director: Steve Barron
Year: 2000

He might eat maggots and live in a cage but he's still our Dad

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.

Top cast

Imelda Staunton

Conchita Flynn

Frank Kelly

Uncle Matt

David Wilmot

Phelim Spratt

Kerry Condon

Marietta Flynn

Andrew Lovern

Pius Flynn

Pete Postlethwaite

Hubert Flynn

Ed Byrne

Rudolph

Niall Tóibín

Father Geraldo

Geoffrey Palmer

The Doctor

Stanley Townsend

Newsreader

Jamie McCormack

Kid

Directed by

Steve Barron

Written by

Wesley Burrowes

Produced by

Steve Barron, Alison Owen