Stuart Little has nothing on the titular, stout-swilling rodent of this twee Irish farce. A bread-delivering Everybloke (a forever fatherly Postlethwaite) returns from the pub and metamorphoses into a white rat, shocking everyone in his suburban Dublin neighborhood except his family. Amid warnings that the labor department will never give unemployment compensation to a rat (''if they let one rat sign on, they'll all be wanting to sign on''), his shrill wife (Staunton), his priest-to-be son, and his comparatively caring daughter struggle to make room for Daddy under the watchful eye of a supposedly well-meaning journalist. A sharp script and convincing cast give reality and warmth to this Kafka-esque tale.
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