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Outbreak

5.7

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Original title

Outbreak

Year

1995

Running time

127 min.

Country

United States

Director

Wolfgang Petersen

Screenwriter

Laurence Dworet, Robert Roy Pool

Cast

Music

James Newton Howard

Cinematography

Michael Ballhaus

Producer

Warner Bros., Kopelson Entertainment, Punch Productions

Genre

Drama. Thriller. Action | Army. Disease/illness. Pandemic

Synopsis

Colonel Sam Daniels, head of the US Army’s viral outbreak crisis centre USARMIID in Maryland, is sent to investigate an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. Daniels is then persuaded by his military superiors to regard the virus as non-lethal. However a monkey from Zaire is brought into the US aboard a Korean freighter and stolen by a quarantine employee. The monkey succeeds in infecting people and they in turn infect all those they come in contact with. All die horribly within a matter of hours. Daniels realizes the virus has reached the US but his superiors try to prevent him from doing anything about it. But soon entire towns are affected. As Daniels tries to trace the source of the outbreak, he realizes that the military are attempting to develop it as a bio-weapon.

Awards: 1995: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Spacey)

1995: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Supp. Actor (Spacey)

1995: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Supporting Actor.

1995: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Science Fiction Film.

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Outbreak

1995

Wolfgang Petersen

5.7

(15,549)