No cabe duda de que Roddy es una "rata de la alta sociedad" que vive como un rey en un piso de Kensington atendido por dos mayordomos, los hámsteres Gilbert y Sullivan. Pero cuando una vulgar rata de alcantarilla llamada Sid aparece por la pila de la cocina y decide que esto es jauja, a Roddy no le queda más remedio que deshacerse del intruso atrayéndole hacia el "remolino".
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.
