Warm Bodies [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jonathan Levine Jonathan Levine

Overview

A tormented zombie (Nicholas Hoult) experiences a profound transformation after entering into an unusual relationship with the daughter (Teresa Palmer) of a military leader charged with eradicating the walking dead. As the unlikely pair build a tenuous bridge between the living and the dead, those on both sides of the battle begin to sense that nothing in their world will ever be the same again. Warm Bodies is based on the novel by Isaac Marion. Rob Corddry and John Malkovich round out the starring cast.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/04/2013
UPC:	0025192190681
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:38:00
Sales rank:	5,650

Special Features

Boy meets, er, doesn't eat girl ; R&J; A little less dead; Extreme zombie makeover!; A wreck in progress; Bustin' caps; Beware the Boneys; Whimsical sweetness: Teresa Palmer's Warm Bodies home movies; Zombie acting with Rob Corddry; Audio commentary with screenwriter/director Jonathan Levine and actors Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer; Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary with screenwriter/director Jonathan Levine; Shrug & groan gag reel; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicholas Hoult	Actor
Teresa Palmer	Actor
Rob Corddry	Actor
John Malkovich	Actor
Dave Franco	Actor
Analeigh Tipton	Actor
Daniel Rindress-Kay	Actor
Vincent Leclerc	Actor
Clifford LeDuc-Vaillancourt	Actor
Billie Calmeau	Actor
Adam Driscoll	Actor
Chris Cavener	Actor
Jonathan Dubsky	Actor
Alec Bourgeois	Actor
Robert Reynolds	Actor
Felix Bergeron	Actor
Josee Laviolette	Actor
Zavier Vaillancourt	Actor
John Topor	Actor
Aaron Janke	Actor
Ayisha Issa	Actor
Chimwemwe Dave Miller	Actor
Christine "Lady Lighting" Rodriguez	Actor
Serge Cambronne	Actor
Debbie Wong	Actor
Quinn O'Neil	Actor
Bineyam Girma	Actor
Brent Skagford	Actor
Arthur Holden	Actor
Raphael Grosz-Harvey	Actor
Christian Paul	Actor
Cory Hardrict	Kevin
Buck Sanders	Composer
Marco Beltrami	Composer

Technical Credits

Jonathan Levine

Jonathan Levine	Director,Screenwriter
David Hoberman	Producer
Bruna Papandrea	Producer
Todd Lieberman	Producer
Laurie Webb	Executive Producer,Producer
Cori Shepherd Stern	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Leslie Shatz	Sound/Sound Designer
Andrea Kenyon	Casting
Randi Wells	Casting
Joanna Colbert	Casting
Richard Mento	Casting
Helene Ross	Production Manager
Dave McKeown	Stunts
Lorette LeBlanc	Script Supervisor
John Brooks Klingenbeck	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The monsters of film, literature, and mythology were created so that people could confront the realities of human nature via metaphors, and few of them are capable of creating existential crises as devastating as those brought about by a zombie apocalypse. Not only do the heroes of the zombie genre face the challenges of a lawless society decimated by a plague, but they must also quickly adapt to life at the bottom of the food chain and cope with weighty issues of faith, morality, and the inevitability of death. While the genre has taken many twists and turns since the first corpse was reanimated and embarked on its endless hunt for living flesh, relatively few have focused on the less violent, yet arguably more terrifying, notion that the undead may retain a sliver of awareness. Warm Bodies, written and directed by Jonathan Levine and based on the novel by Isaac Marion, proposes that zombies do harbor a spark of life. R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie who has forgotten the details of his former existence save for the first letter of his first name, tries to find meaning wherever he can, whether through hazy imitations of the rituals of friendship, his salvaged record collection, or his red hoodie -- one of the only pieces of color in the dark, drab airport he calls home. Through his inner dialogue, the audience learns that the undead are plagued as much by the sting of lost potential as they are with a feral desire to feed. Hoult's performance is so strong and the material so well-written that one would be hard-pressed not to feel bad for R, who, aside from the whole eating people thing, is a decent, gentle, and lonely young man. One of the best things about Warm Bodies is the zombies' perception of what constitutes a meaningful occurrence. They are not ambitious creatures. Rather than grand ideas, they hold precious what little ability they have to communicate, even if it is mainly limited to grunting. They cannot sing or write, dream or dance, but on some basic level they understand that these things are all terribly important. Interestingly, it's this understanding that drives them to feed. As R explains, the consumption of a human brain allows the dead to briefly experience the memories of their victims. When he is introduced to Julie (Teresa Palmer) via eating her boyfriend's brain, it is intense enough for him to rustle up three entire words ("keep you safe"), experience exactly one heartbeat, and comprehend the incredibly awkward situation of having murdered the boyfriend of your crush. Julie, meanwhile, slowly and reluctantly develops a fierce affection for R, and hopes to convince her father (John Malkovich), who has become numb to the world as a coping mechanism, that a corpse is capable of feeling. When R communicates his distress after Julie's departure, a zombie known as M (Rob Corddry) begins his own journey of self-rediscovery by recollecting an echo of his own former relationship struggles. M's contribution to the discussion is, simply, "Bitches," but it's enough to plant the seed that will transform the zombie apocalypse into a zombie revolution of sorts. The idea that love can literally bring back the dead does require a major suspension of disbelief, and many will question if it belongs anywhere near a zombie flick. Again, however, this is such a well-written, well-acted, and well-paced film with a great payoff at the end that it proves that "adorable" and "zombie movie" are capable of coexisting together, and that the living could stand to reevaluate existing versus aimlessly shuffling around.