Twenty-eight days after an infectious virus has decimated the UK, Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes from a coma to find a desolate and ravaged London. Danny Boyle brings the post-apocalyptic capital vividly to life, with iconic scenes of Murphy wandering through an eerily abandoned Westminster and a nail-biting set-piece with a taxi tearing through the Blackwall tunnel.
28 Days Later... (2002)
Danny Boyle’s thrilling film, set in a UK ravaged by a virus, stars Cillian Murphy.
- 2002 United Kingdom, USA
- Directed by
- Danny Boyle
- Produced by
- Andrew Macdonald
- Written by
- Alex Garland
- Featuring
- Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns
- Running time
- 113 minutes
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