Synopsis
In every big city, there is a part of town you don’t go into – where the only law is the law of the jungle. And it is here, in Rats & Rabbits, one hot summer’s night, that the Mayor is brutally assassinated. The spotlights swing onto the ghetto. Six misfits are caught in the glare, forced to perform a despairing and dangerous balancing act ; each needs the other but the rules of the game are clear – " every man for himself ".
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : M6 Films, PM Audiovisuel
- Foreign production company : Productions Laure-Furey
- Film exports/foreign sales : SND
- French distribution : Magouric Productions
Full credits (9)
- Foreign producers : Lewis Furey, Carole Laure
- Sound recordists : Jean-Paul Hurier, Frédéric Attal, Simon Goulet
- Screenwriters : Pascal Arnold, Lewis Furey
- Co-producer : Alain Pancrazi
- Director of Photography : Gérard Simon
- Editor : Véronique Parnet
- Production Designer : Frédéric Page
- Music Composers : Vic Emerson, Nicolas Haas
- Costume designer : Georges Lévesque
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 05/04/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.760
- Visa issue date : 16/03/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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About
After working for years on music shows and videos, I wanted to move on and make a movie for and with actors. The original play by George F. Walker appealed to me. I thought its dark humor would be a good way to handle a general state of confusion that I felt was in the air. The characters are all practically hysterical, careering around like comic book characters, but still, they’re all looking for absolutes in a closed environment. I took great and admittedly rather perverse pleasure in following my actors around the streets of my home city, Montreal, with a hand-held camera, watching them bounce off the walls and wonder “Where the hell is the exit?”
Lewis Furey, Director
