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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 23, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tim Blake Nelson, Billy Connolly & Carrie-Anne Moss | |
Performer: | Dylan Baker & Henry Czerny | |
Directed by | Andrew Currie | |
Music by | Don MacDonald | |
Screenwriting by | Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak & Dennis Heaton | |
Produced by | Blake Corbet & Mary Anne Waterhouse | |
Director of Photography: | Jan Kiesser |
Entertainment Reviews:
This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Fido does offer a good number of laughs, along with a healthy serving of gore to satisfy horror fans.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Andrew Currie's script incisively observes how taboo preferences have become policies in the reality "Fido" creates. Macabre and satirical with the brash brio of all great zombie movies, "Fido" understands that the true ghouls' hearts are still beating.
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The Film Yap
[T]icklishly amusing....Mr. Currie and company are happy to make you laugh, which they do easily...
New York Times
Enslaved, exploited and feared, the zombies stand in for a long history of African-American objectification and subjugation in a white-dominated, patriarchal United States, while also satirising contemporary obsessions with home security.
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Projected Figures
Fido tries very hard to keep the tone light, but it doesn't succeed in meshing hilarity and horror: the more disturbing ideas it's messing about with poke through.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
Subtle? No, but it's clever and funny in a thoroughly reimagined alternate universe, where the paternal smiles of authority figures hide an unchecked police state keeping the gated communities white, middle class, and compliant.
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Seanax.com
Product Description:
Lying somewhere between PLEASANTVILLE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, FIDO is a zombie buddy pic/love story set in a picture-perfect, technicolored 1950s suburb. With the world still recovering from a zombie war that broke out several decades prior, the town of Willard has found a way to keep the peace. The world beyond the gates may be overrun by zombies, but fortunately a huge corporation called ZomCom has managed to domesticate the undead, turning them into faithful servants of the human race. Director Andrew Currie's movie follows a young boy named Timmy (K'Sun Ray) as he develops a friendship with the zombie (Billy Connolly) his mother purchases to impress the new neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Bottoms, when she finds out Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) just happens to be the head of ZomCom itself. Naming his new friend Fido and initially treating him like a poorly-behaved dog, Timmy soon confirms what he always secretly suspected – that zombies can have feelings too. No one is more surprised by this than Timmy's mom, Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), who, as an escape from of her rude, zombie-phobic husband (Dylan Baker), develops some very human feelings for the household zombie help.
The best part about Fido are the zombies themselves, with Billy Connolly giving a great performance as Fido. Even though he's never given an opportunity to speak, Connolly convincingly comes across as kind and life-loving despite his zombie-ness. In creating the look of the 1950s, the film boasts impressively bright colors and neat furniture design. This, combined with elaborate costumes, provides a surreal backdrop for a fantastical plot. Thankfully Currie never gets too sentimental with his script, and maintains a satirical tone throughout, throwing in a severed limb whenever things risk getting to weepy.
The best part about Fido are the zombies themselves, with Billy Connolly giving a great performance as Fido. Even though he's never given an opportunity to speak, Connolly convincingly comes across as kind and life-loving despite his zombie-ness. In creating the look of the 1950s, the film boasts impressively bright colors and neat furniture design. This, combined with elaborate costumes, provides a surreal backdrop for a fantastical plot. Thankfully Currie never gets too sentimental with his script, and maintains a satirical tone throughout, throwing in a severed limb whenever things risk getting to weepy.
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- Sales Rank: 22,981
- UPC: 031398218807
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