Fido: Starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, Henry Czerny, Tim Blake Nelson and K'Sun Ray
Fido makes for a good time. With a strong cast, stellar filmmaking and a hilariously sweet script, the film rolls along at the perfect pace.
Willard is a small town where residents live an idyllic lifestyle not far from the similarly created Pleasantville. Set in the 50’s, the sun shines perpetually and smiles are frozen on each of the neighbors faces.
Enter the Robinson family, one of the perfect folk who inhabit this agreeable town. Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) and her husband (Dylan Baker) have one child (K’Sun Ray), who doesn’t think life is all that peachy.
Cue the zombies, who also dwell in Willard and are the trendy accompaniment to every household. When Helen buys a zombie one day, her son’s outlook on life changes. His mother decides that her family isn’t complete without one of the fashionable accessories and purchases one, who’s later to be named Fido, without her husband’s approval.
Soon their loner son Timmy is playing with Fido and becoming fast friends with the zombie. The all-powerful company in charge of them, ZomCom, has made their presence optimal by creating collars that keep them tranquil and well behaved.
Inevitably, Fido’s collar begins misbehaving and he ends up eating the neighbor. What will the residents in the perfect little town do when their “pets” stop conforming to their ruling ways?
What’s left is a biting satire that fuses old movie references with a modern look at the power structure of our world today. Ultimately about love and friendship, the film also takes a bite out of our contemporary lifestyle and makes us laugh along the way.
If you live in Canada, attend the opening weekend of the film and enter to win prizes: Original FIDO Artwork, 1 of 4 Autographed Scripts (including Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss and Andrew Currie among others), Autographed Posters, T-Shirts, and more.
Then visit http://www.firstweekend.ca/fido/contest1/contest_1.php to enter.
Producer Blake Corbet will be in attendance in Calgary for the March 16th screening at The Globe Theatre.
Vancouverites will get to meet the director, producers, writers and some of the cast following the early screening at The Paramount Theatre on March 16th and 17th, 2007.
Check your local theatres for showtimes.
