Fido (film)

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Fido
Directed by	Andrew Currie
Produced by	Trent Carlson Patrick Cassavetti Blake Corbet Kevin Eastwood Daniel Iron Michael Shepard Mary Anne Waterhouse Ki Wight
Written by	Robert Chomiak Andrew Currie Dennis Heaton
Starring	Carrie-Anne Moss Billy Connolly Dylan Baker K'Sun Ray Henry Czerny Tim Blake Nelson
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films
Release date(s)	March 16 (Canada) June 15 (U.S.) 2007
Running time	91 min
Language	English
Budget	$11 million
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Fido is a Canadian zombie comedy film released in 2006. It was directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Andrew Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Dennis Heaton. It was produced by Lions Gate Films, Anagram Pictures, British Columbia Film Commission and Téléfilm Canada.

This film premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. It was also shown at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 2007 Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Its release date is March 16, 2007 in Canada and June 15, 2007 in the U.S.

Contents 1 MPAA rating 2 Plot 3 Critical Response 4 Cast 5 External links

[edit] MPAA rating

PG-13 for sequences of zombie violence and gore, and comic horror situations.

[edit] Plot

In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility "pet" ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society's rapid slide into chaos, however, was soon halted when scientists at a company called ZomCon created a special collar that turned the rampaging animated corpses docile. Now, thanks to ZomCon, everything is under control - or is it? Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray) isn't quite convinced. Quiet and withdrawn, the skeptical young boy spends so much time locked away in his room that he's almost become invisible around the household. His mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) has recently purchased a zombie to help keep things tidy around the house, though, and when the creature attempts to engage the curious youngster in a game of catch, a friendship is forged between boy and zombie that finds the amiable gut-muncher nicknamed "Fido" (Billy Connolly) practically becoming a part of the family. Things take a turn for the worse, however, when "Fido"'s collar malfunctions and Timmy's neighbors begin dying in droves. When ZomCon's top zombie control specialist Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) moves in across the street from Timmy, the increasingly complicated situation threatens to place a serious stumbling block in the path of human-zombie relations.

Tagline: He's not just a zombie, he's part of the family.

[edit] Critical Response

Rotten Tomatoes critics gave the film a 93% Fresh rating.

[edit] Cast

Carrie-Anne Moss .... Helen Robinson

Billy Connolly .... Fido

Dylan Baker .... Bill Robinson

K'Sun Ray .... Timmy Robinson

Henry Czerny .... Jonathan Bottoms

Tim Blake Nelson .... Mr. Theopolis

[edit] External links

• Fido the Movie official site
• Fido (film) at the Internet Movie Database
• ZomCon website; fictional company created for the film