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.
Production Lions Gate Films; Anagram Pictures Inc. [ca]; Astral Media [ca]; British Columbia Film Commission [ca]; Chum Television [ca]; Movie Central Network [ca]; Movie Network, The (TMN) [ca]; Téléfilm Canada [ca];
Cast Names Mike Azevedo; Carrie-Anne Moss; Billy Connolly; Dylan Baker; Kesun Loder; Sonja Bennett; Jennifer Clement; Rob LaBelle; Aaron (XII) Brown; Brandon Olds; Alexia Fast; Henry Czerny; Tim Blake Nelson; David Kaye; Jan Skorzewski; Kevin Tyell; Andy Parkin; Lynn Pendleton; Gary Slater; Taylor Petri; Glenn Richards; Raphael Kepinski; Carl-James Kalbfleisch; Tiffany Lyndall-Knight; Mary Black; Bernard Cuffling; Glen Power; Michael Irwin; Liam Crocker; Lauren Oleksewich;
Box Office USD 298,110
Release Date 2007-01-31 (Santa Barbara Film Festival) 2007-02-10 (Portland International Film Festival) 2007-03-28 (AFI Dallas Film Festival) 2007-03-31 (Florida Film Festival) 2007-05-30 (Seattle International Film Festival) 2007-06-15 (limited)
Genres Comedy; Drama; Horror; Romance;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for zombie-related violence.