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Dawn of the Dead

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Dawn of the Dead

Sarah Polley in a scene from "Dawn of the Dead."

Starring:

Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth

Director:

Zack Snyder

Release Date:

March 2003

MPAA Rating:

Not Rated

Distributor:

Universal Pictures

Producers:

Richard P. Rubinstein, Marc Abraham, Eric Newman

Description:

As the United States is turned upside-down by a strange plague-like event in which millions of corpses walk the earth as blood-thirsty zombies (with the recently-deceased that the zombies kill usually returning as zombies themselves, multiplying their number), a small group of survivors of the onslaught, which include a nurse (Polley) and a police officer (Rhames), try to find shelter and protection within a massive shopping mall in the mid-sized city of Everett, WA. What they don't reckon on is that the zombies still have some sort of residual memory, and *everyone* loves going to the mall, right? Realizing that their time is running out, they decide to make another attempt at flight, to a presumably un-zombie-infested island, but to do so, they'll have to get past thousands of zombies in-between...

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