Plot
After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 7.4/10 (18,793 voted)
Director:Jonathan Levine
Storyline
With much of the future world's population rendered into an undead horde, R is a young, and oddly introspective, zombie. On a feeding encounter with a human gathering party, R meets Julie and feels an urge to protect her. What happens with that is the beginnings of a strangely warm relationship that causes R to start to regain his humanity. As this change spreads throughout the undead population, Julie and R eventually find they are facing a larger issue even as their friendship is challenged. Caught between the paranoid human forces and the ferocious Bonie zombies who are a mutual threat, R and Julie must find a way to bridge the sides to fight for a better world no one thought possible.
Opening Weekend: $20,353,967
(USA)
(1 February 2013)
Gross: $58,168,053
(USA)(22 February 2013)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
When R is talking to Julie outside her house the scene is referencing to the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet". R (Romeo) is talking to Julie (Juliet) on the balcony. See more »
Goofs:
As R and Julie talk on a highway, behind R, there are two jet contrails visible in the sky. See more »
Quotes: R:
This girl's dead. That guy's dead... That guy in the corner is definitely dead.
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User Review
Zombie Love Like You've Never Seen
Rating: 8/10
Going into Jonathan Levine's (50/50, The Wackness) new film Warm
Bodies, I was intrigued. I didn't know quite what I was going to get as
the concept was fresh and unique.
Zombies have taken over, yet one zombie, named R, played wonderfully by
Nicholas Hoult has a mind of his own and is not your typical zombie. He
has a conscious mind at work, and soon he falls for a pretty girl named
Julie (Teresa Palmer) that he encounters.
This is where the movie puts a twist on the whole zombie genre. He soon
becomes enamored by her and becomes more human, as she has stimulated
his heart. Can a zombie find solace with another person and...love?
That is the main theme of this movie, and it's a damn good one.
Their chemistry will draw you in and actually make you buy it, no
matter how ridiculous it is. R's friend, M, played hilariously by Rob
Corddry steals the show with funny scene after funny scene.
With Warm Bodies you get a mix of comedy, romance, and zombie-horror.
It's a fresh spin on all three, and it was truly a fun time at the
theater. It's well paced and has a great feel to it from the get-go,
mostly in part to wonderful narration from Holt, and smooth direction
from Levine.
It's only February but I already found one of my early favorites of
2013.
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