Shaun of the Dead with his stepfather Philip, and his girlfriend Liz breaks up with him, unhappy they spend every evening at his local pub, the Winchester. After the break-up, Shaun drowns his sorrows there with his housemate and best friend Ed. At home, their housemate Pete, complaining of a bite wound from a mugger, berates Shaun to get his life together. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London, but Shaun and Ed are slow to notice until they encounter two zombies in their garden and kill them with blows to the head. They form a plan to rescue Shaun's mother, Barbara, and
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film) Wooley's Diner echoes Jim Baffico's character role Wooley. In the United Kingdom, "Dawn of the Dead" and "Shaun of the Dead" were originally scheduled to be released the same week, but due to the similarity in the names of the two films and plot outline, UIP opted to push back "Shaun" release by two weeks. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $59 million at the US box office and $102 million worldwide. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes offers the film a 75% approval rating from 185 critics and an average rating