Outbreak (1995) USA
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Director:Wolfgang Petersen
Studio:Warner Home Video
Producer:Gail Katz, Wolfgang Petersen, Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson
Writer:Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool
Rating:4.5
Rated:R
Date Added:2007-03-06
Purchased On:2007-06-03
ASIN:0790731401
UPC:0085391363224
Price:$12.98
Awards:2 wins & 2 nominations
Genre:Disaster Films
Release:1997-05-20
IMDb:0114069
Duration:128
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages:English, Dolby Digital 5.1, French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French
Features:Anamorphic
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Wolfgang Petersen  ...  (Director)
Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool  ...  (Writer)
 
Dustin Hoffman  ...  Col. Sam Daniels
Rene Russo  ...  Robby Keough
Morgan Freeman  ...  Brig. Gen. Billy Ford
Kevin Spacey  ...  Maj. Casey Schuler
Cuba Gooding Jr.  ...  Maj. Salt
Donald Sutherland  ...  Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock
Patrick Dempsey  ...  Jimbo Scott
Zakes Mokae  ...  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
Malick Bowens  ...  Dr. Raswani
Susan Lee Hoffman  ...  Dr. Lisa Aronson
Benito Martinez  ...  Dr. Julio Ruiz
Bruce Jarchow  ...  Dr. Mascelli
Leland Hayward III  ...  Henry Seward
Daniel Chodos  ...  Rudy Alvarez
Dale Dye  ...  Lt. Col. Briggs
Kara Keough  ...  
Gina Menza  ...  
Per Didrik Fasmer  ...  
Michelle Joyner  ...  
Donald Forrest (II)  ...  
Comments: Try to remain calm.

Summary: When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying nonfiction book The Hot Zone (purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the U.S., added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot), and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--called Outbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise of Outbreak, which owes something to Elia Kazan's 1950 plague-scare movie, Panic in the Streets, is as terrifying as it is timely. As developers slash their way deeper into the previously unexplored tropical rainforests, they are exposed to radically new forms of life, including diseases, that in these days of commonplace international travel could turn into deadly epidemics almost before we know it. Hoffman's character and his estranged wife (Rene Russo) are disease experts called in to identify the unknown killer, which was carried into the country by an illegally smuggled monkey. The best sequence shows the disease spreading--through recycled air on a passenger jet, or a sneeze in a crowded movie theater. The final chase is pretty conventional, but the cast is terrific, including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., J.T. Walsh, and Zakes Mokae. --Jim Emerson