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Outbreak (1995)
6.4
Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly? Director:Wolfgang Petersen |
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| Dustin Hoffman | ... |
Sam Daniels
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| Rene Russo | ... | ||
| Morgan Freeman | ... |
General Billy Ford
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| Kevin Spacey | ... |
Casey Schuler
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| Cuba Gooding Jr. | ... |
Major Salt
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| Donald Sutherland | ... |
General Donald McClintock
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| Patrick Dempsey | ... |
Jimbo Scott
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Zakes Mokae | ... |
Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
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| Malick Bowens | ... |
Dr. Raswani
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Susan Lee Hoffman | ... |
Dr. Lisa Aronson
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| Benito Martinez | ... |
Dr. Julio Ruiz
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Bruce Jarchow | ... |
Dr. Mascelli
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Leland Hayward III | ... |
Henry Seward
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Daniel Chodos | ... |
Rudy Alvarez
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| Dale Dye | ... |
Colonel Briggs
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Storyline
In July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Research Insitiute of Infectious Diseases (USARIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta... Written by Todd Baldridge
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Country:
USARelease Date:
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Epidemia See more »Box Office
Budget:
$50,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$13,420,387 (USA) (12 March 1995) (2215 Screens)Gross:
$187,800,000 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Trivia
This film won a development battle with a similar viral-outbreak thriller project at 20th Century Fox called "Hot Zone". That film was going to be directed by Ridley Scott and star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, but ran into script problems that threw it off stride. When producer Arnold Kopelson hired Ted Tally to work on his script, he liked the results so much that he immediately sent it out to Harrison Ford; Ford declined, but then Dustin Hoffman and Wolfgang Petersen signed on to star and direct, and Warner Bros. greenlit the film for a 1995 release. See more »Goofs
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Hospital HVAC Systems are supposed to be designed to not recirculate air from room to room. The ideal design is so that patients who walk in with broken arms do not walk out with other maladies. However, many hospital HVAC systems are not correctly maintained, and others are not correctly designed - some/many have exam rooms that share air. So when the virus in the movie mutates and is air born, it could be spread by the HVAC System especially in a community hospital that isn't geared up for contagious diseases. In fact, the Llassa fever virus was spread exactly this way in a major US east coast medical center. One person, a tech working on a non-patient floor, contracted the virus even though extreme containment procedures were thought to be in place - the HVAC system was assumed to be the pathway. See more »
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