Sitcom
World Cinema Classics
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, UR
When the father of a stereotypical middle-class French family brings home a pet rat, he triggers a surge of orgies, incest and murder within his prim and polished suburban home. François Ozon (Swimming Pool) displays hints of Luis Buñuel and John Waters in his anarchic takedown of the middle-class, flipping family relations and pushing them to the extreme. They should have got a dog.
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