---
title: 'Rat (2000)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Steve Barron'
released: '2000-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rat-2000'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234570/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Rat (2000)

2000 · Comedy · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Steve Barron](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-barron)
- **Screenplay:** [Wesley Burrowes](https://cinepixo.com/people/wesley-burrowes)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Pete Briquette](https://cinepixo.com/people/pete-briquette)
- **Producer:** [Alison Owen](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-owen)
- **Director of Photography:** [Brendan Galvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/brendan-galvin)

## Cast

- [Geoffrey Palmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-palmer)
- [Stanley Townsend](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-townsend)
- [Imelda Staunton](https://cinepixo.com/people/imelda-staunton) as Conchita Flynn
- [Peter Caffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-caffrey)
- [Pete Postlethwaite](https://cinepixo.com/people/pete-postlethwaite) as Hubert Flynn
- [Frank Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-kelly)
- [Ed Byrne](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-byrne)
- [David Wilmot](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-wilmot)
- [Kerry Condon](https://cinepixo.com/people/kerry-condon)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rat-2000
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