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Studio: Lionsgate
Release Date: Jun 15, 2007
Running Time: 91 mins.
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the '50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants--a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control -- but do they? Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. At 11, Timmy already knows the world is phony baloney -- Mom and Dad just won't admit it. Now ZomCon's head of security has moved in across the street, and Timmy's Mom refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn't have a zombie of her own. When she brings a zombie servant home, Timmy discovers a new best friend, and names him Fido. And even though Dad has a bad case of zombie-phobia, Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does eat the odd person. Sometimes, it takes a dead man to teach us all what it means to be alive.
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Fido is a hilariously poignant Leave it to Beaver send up--with flesh-eating zombies added in for kicks. Story The Robinsons lead a rather idyllic life in Willard, a town that looks like a throwback to the 1950s. But actually, we are in the future, where zombies once walk the Earth. A corporation called Zomcom has figure out how to control all the zombies and suppress their flesh-eating nature with collars, so now the undead have become domestic servants to the living. Mom Robinson (Carrie-Anne
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June 13, 2007
Just when you thought there was no way to spin a fresh zombie story, along comes Fido. Set in a Canadian suburb during the 1950s, the movie boasts a delicious premise: What if humans were the victors in a zombie war, and now the living dead – fit with dog collars to zap their cannibal instincts – were turned into domestic slaves? Hey, zombie, mow that lawn. Housewife Helen, played with inspired silliness by Matrix diva Carrie-Anne Moss, persuades her wimp hubby (Dylan Baker) to get the family
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