Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson

Born: April 29, 1949
in Stepney, London, England, UK
Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949 in Stepney London) is an English Actress and singer. She is best known for playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap, Eastenders.

Movies for Anita Dobson...

This Time Next Year
Title: This Time Next Year
Character: Mrs. Mentis
Released: June 3, 2024
Type: Movie
Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — they find themselves thrown together again in the same city on New Year’s Eve.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Mrs Flood
Released: May 11, 2024
Type: TV
The Doctor and his companion travel across time and space encountering incredible friends and foes.
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Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Title: Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Character: Bella
Released: December 16, 2023
Type: Movie
It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.
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When 80s TV Goes Horribly Wrong
Title: When 80s TV Goes Horribly Wrong
Character: Narrator
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Anita Dobson narrates a look at some '80s TV moments that many celebrities would rather forget, from a stunt that went wrong for Paul Daniels to Des O'Connor's dog bite on the nose.
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Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
Title: Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
Character: Molly
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: Movie
An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.
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Dodger Special: Christmas
Title: Dodger Special: Christmas
Character: Bertha
Released: December 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
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Tomorrow Morning
Title: Tomorrow Morning
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
The musical follows the relationships of what at first seems like two different couples separated by a span of time; one couple is getting married and the other is getting divorced. It turns out they are actually the same couple at two points in their relationship—a decade apart.
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Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Title: Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2022
Type: Movie
The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from AIDS, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS. For the first time, Freddie's story is told alongside the experiences of those who tested positive for HIV and lost loved ones during the same period. Medical practitioners, survivors, and human rights campaigners recount the intensity of living through the AIDS pandemic and the moral panic it brought about.
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Title: The Long Call
Character: Grace Stephenson
Released: October 25, 2021
Type: TV
Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in.
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Title: Murder, They Hope
Character: Bella
Released: May 8, 2021
Type: TV
After their trip to Middlesbrough turned a little more explosive than they thought, Gemma and Terry finally decide to pack up the smouldering remains of their coach tour business and set out on a new adventure as fully-fledged private detectives.
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The Fight
Title: The Fight
Character: Gene Dunn
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the dysfunction and beat her inner demons, Tina puts on her fighting gloves - literally, stepping into the boxing ring to sweat out her anxieties and punch up her self-worth. But does she have what it takes to get her family off the ropes and emerge victorious?
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Torvill & Dean
Title: Torvill & Dean
Character: Miss Perry
Released: December 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Title: Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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Solitary
Title: Solitary
Character: Nurse Mary
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
When party-girl Nora is forced to move back home with her aging father, it seems life can't get any worse. But inside her childhood home the ghosts of her past begin to haunt her, until the secret she has buried for so long is finally revealed.
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London Road
Title: London Road
Character: June
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: Movie
London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
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Title: Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Character: Queen Elizabeth I
Released: May 24, 2015
Type: TV
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
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Title: Pompidou
Released: March 1, 2015
Type: TV
In an old caravan parked in front of his crumbling estate lives Pompidou - a tubby, pompous, penniless, eccentric, yet lovable aristocrat. He is an elderly oddball who has fallen on hard times.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Frances
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Mabel Tillerson
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Little Crackers
Character: Nan
Released: December 19, 2010
Type: TV
Little Crackers is a series of Christmas short films featuring stars of British and Irish comedy.
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Title: Live from Studio Five
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: TV
Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness news and celebrity gossip, after originally covering stories from a popular news agenda. It aired its final edition on 4 February 2011 and was replaced by OK! TV in February 2011 which lasted just nine months on air before itself being axed.
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Title: Moving On
Character: Kate Marr
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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Title: The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
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Title: Great British Menu
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Released: April 10, 2006
Type: TV
Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.
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Title: Today with Des and Mel
Released: November 17, 2004
Type: TV
Today with Des and Mel was a British television series hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes. The show featured celebrity guests, phone-in competitions and chat between the hosts. It was produced by Carlton Television, at The London Studios. The show was previously produced at Teddington Studios for the first series. Today with Des and Mel was loosely based on the format of the popular American television show, Live with Regis and Kelly. At one stage, the show was given the green light for an evening version to be made. For a short time in January 2005, the show appeared in a 5 p.m. slot, but this was soon dropped, and a full prime-time version never came about. ITV announced on 12 May 2006, that the show had been axed.
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Ruth Leyman
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.
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Charlie
Title: Charlie
Character: Charlie's Mum
Released: February 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Elaine Wanless
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Title: The Last Detective
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: TV
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
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The Stretch
Title: The Stretch
Character: Sam Greene
Released: November 13, 2000
Type: Movie
When Terry (Grantham) is sentenced to a twenty-year stretch for a murder he did not commit, his wife Sam (Dobson) discovers that his apparently respectable business life has in fact been a cover for a vast criminal empire - drugs, protection, armed robbery, he was involved in it all. After the initial shock of the discovery has passed, Sam finds herself faced with a clear problem: should she leave it all behind, forget Terry and start her life afresh, or should she take charge of the business in her husband's absence?
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Title: Urban Gothic
Character: Fenella
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: TV
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
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Darkness Falls
Title: Darkness Falls
Character: Mrs. Hayter
Released: August 27, 1999
Type: Movie
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
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Title: Sunburn
Character: Joyce Potts
Released: January 16, 1999
Type: TV
Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.
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Junk
Title: Junk
Character: Mrs Lawson
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Bafta-winning drama. Following difficulties with her parents, teenager Gemma Brogan leaves home. She falls under the spell of a young woman who introduce her to the world of alternative youth culture and drugs. Initially her new life seems glamorous and exciting but she soon discovers its dark side as she slides uncontrollably into heroin addiction.
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The Tichborne Claimant
Title: The Tichborne Claimant
Character: Fanny Loder
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
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The Revengers' Comedies
Title: The Revengers' Comedies
Character: Daphne Teal
Released: June 9, 1998
Type: Movie
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.
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Title: Get Well Soon
Character: Mrs Osborne
Released: November 2, 1997
Type: TV
Comedy set in an English Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947.
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Title: Ghosts
Character: Suzi Rudkin
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: TV
British anthology series of ghost stories.
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Beyond Bedlam
Title: Beyond Bedlam
Character: Judith
Released: April 22, 1994
Type: Movie
An experiment gone awry places a neurologist (Elizabeth Hurley) and a homicide detective (Craig Fairbrass) in a psychopath's (Keith Allen) nightmarish world.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Molly Kingsley
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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The World of Eddie Weary
Title: The World of Eddie Weary
Character: Roxanne
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in real-life: stuck up, pretentious and selfish, the constant focus of tabloid interest for his bad, usually drunken behaviour. But then he discovers he gets truckloads of mail from fans who think he really is Eddie Weary, asking for his help, so he decides to help them - with the aid of his assistant, Birdie.
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Title: Split Ends
Character: Cath
Released: June 7, 1989
Type: TV
Split Ends is a British Sitcom which ran for one series on ITV in 1989. It was written by Len Richmond and directed by Alan J. W. Bell. Cath is a beautiful woman in her thirties, who runs a hairdresser's shop. Each episode sees Cath trying to decide if she wants to be with Clint or David. The series also featured Barbara New and Nimmy March in supporting roles.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Captain Tau
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Title: Going Live!
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher. The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking. In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Elaine Carrington
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Cora
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Rachel Lan
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: EastEnders
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Angie Watts
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Title: Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
Released: November 30, 1983
Type: TV
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle was an ITV sitcom which aired from 1983 to 1985, starring comedian Jim Davidson, who played the role of Jim London. The show spawned a sequel, Home James, which was also made by Thames Television. Home James ran from 1987 to 1990. "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle" also gave early exposure to Anita Dobson. The show was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Released: October 9, 1983
Type: TV
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
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Title: The Paul Daniels Magic Show
Character: Self
Released: June 9, 1979
Type: TV
A British magic show and variety show that aired on BBC1 from 9 June 1979 to 18 June 1994. Daniels' assistant throughout the series was Debbie McGee, whom he married in 1988. At its peak in the 1980s, the show regularly attracted viewing figures of 15 million and was sold to 43 countries.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: Anita Dobson
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
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Title: Curfew
Character: Janet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Set in a society where all men live under 'The Women’s Safety Act', meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7PM to 7AM every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman’s body is discovered, brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Center, veteran Police officer Pamela Green believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected.
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Title: Generation Z
Character: Janine
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The future looks bleak for today's youth - austerity, soaring house prices, student debt, a broken political system... And to add insult to injury, their hard-earned taxes are being eaten up by the elderly: smug, self-satisfied, small-minded, 'Little Englander' pensioners whose sole remaining purpose in life is to make it a misery for everyone else. In a small British town, tensions come to a head when a mysterious military convoy crashes outside the Sunnywise Retirement Home. The vehicles release a toxic substance, which leaks into the local environment and infects the residents of the retirement community. The symptoms of the infection quickly manifest: an overwhelming appetite for raw flesh. They're old, they're angry and they're on the rampage. As the military scrambles to control the outbreak and keep everything out of the media spotlight, a group of regular teenagers find themselves in the thick of the battle against these flesh-eating baby boomers.