Sitcom is a 1998 French dark comedy film directed by François Ozon. The movie is set in an upper-class suburban household where the patriarch, a successful businessman, returns home one day with a pet rat, which his family finds endearing at first. However, things take a bizarre turn when the rat seems to trigger a series of strange events in the family's already unconventional dynamic.
The youngest son, Nicolas, begins to display signs of homosexuality, causing his father to be both shocked and disgusted. The eldest daughter, Sophie, becomes infatuated with her father's new pet, frequently caressing and even kissing the rat. She also makes a suicide attempt by jumping off a balcony, which somehow only draws the family closer together.
Meanwhile, the family's maid, Maria, and her husband Jose begin to exert their sexual freedom and dominant personalities over the household, contributing to the already chaotic situation.
As the situations escalate, the family comes to realize that their former structured and conservative lifestyle is crumbling, and they must embrace their newfound, unconventional nature.
Sitcom is a surreal and darkly humorous take on the breakdown of traditional familial structures and norms, and the unpredictable nature of human behavior. It has been lauded for its bold, idiosyncratic style and subversion of conventional storytelling techniques.