It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
Typical story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy is unable to articulate himself properly when in girl's presence. The difference here is that the boy in question, 'R', is a zombie who's midway through chomping through said girl's boyfriend's brains. More Romeo and Juliet than Romero, Warm Bodies's undead feet are placed firmly in teen romance territory, creating a smart metaphor for adolescent angst and self-doubt, and while neither as inventive or as find out more...
