A Los Angeles playboy decides to give up his partying ways and find true love.

Shelly Dinkley, a gutsy news reporter, believes zombies are terrorizing her small town. She witnesses her co-worker, Eve, attacked and surprisingly saved by a Zombie with a "heart." As Eve discovers there's more to this disenchanted walking cadaver than just his decaying limbs, sparks begin to fly between the pair. Joined by Shelly, they embark on a mystical journey to restore the flesh-eater's humanity; all the while being hunted by a cluster of zany, brainless, kick-line loving zombies, led by the mysterious Big Z who has a secret score to settle with Eve.

A jilted ex-girlfriend plots revenge after her former beau comes back to their hometown with a new lover.

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.