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28 Days Later 113 minutes, UK/France (2002), 18
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Average user rating (4.6 / 194 votes)
Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later

Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland destroy society! A small group of survivors look for salvation after a virus has swept through Britain turning most of the population into slavering monsters

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28 Days Later: Londoners, indeed anyone who has ever visited Britain's overcrowded capital, will get a kick out of seeing such places as Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Street deserted and desolate. This is the sight that greets Jim (Murphy), a bicycle courier who wakes up in hospital 28 days after a man-made virus is accidentally released from a lab...
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