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Release Date:
11 May 2008 (UK) moreTagline:
It's A Bad Day To Be Human.Plot:
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(16 articles)
TV Nominees of 2009 Directors Guild Awards (From Aceshowbiz. 9 January 2009, 8:37 PM, PST)
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Awful moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Benjamin Bratt | ... | Dr. Jeremy Stone | |
| Eric McCormack | ... | Jack Nash | |
| Christa Miller | ... | Dr. Angela Noyce | |
| Daniel Dae Kim | ... | Dr. Tsi Chou | |
| Viola Davis | ... | Dr. Charlene Barton | |
| Justin Louis | ... | Colonel James C. Ferrus | |
| Barry Flatman | ... | Charles 'Chuck' Beeter | |
| Ted Whittall | ... | President William J. Scott | |
| Ted Atherton | ... | Edward 'Ed' Dewitt | |
| Tom McBeath | ... | Kyle Tobler | |
| Rick Schroder | ... | Major Bill Keane MD (as Ricky Schroder) | |
| Andre Braugher | ... | General George W. Mancheck | |
| Jesse Moss | ... | Jeff Megan | |
| Magda Apanowicz | ... | Suzie Travis | |
| Kurt Max Runte | ... | Sherriff Martin Willis |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
174 min | Norway:170 min (2 parts) | USA:180 minCountry:
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1.78 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Originally aired as a two-part miniseries, but has also been edited into 4 different parts intended for airing as hour long episodes with commercials. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: When the helicopter with the scientists goes to the secret base, it is visible through the helicopter windows that one of the F-16s escorts them. This is impossible, because the F16 has a stall speed of about 250 mph while that helicopter has a max. speed of only 135mph - a difference greater than 100 mph. moreFAQ
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Simply horrible: overblown made-for-TV-movie melodrama, poor acting, silly makeup effects and production design, bad direction. And a script that foolishly adds multiple, painfully obvious plot lines to the original story so that the taut and gripping plot of the novel is almost completely obscured. Despite having more running time than the 1971 movie, this soggy mini-series seems rushed to cram in all the stupidity it can.
Watch it at your peril, if you want a satisfying, chilling, and intelligent movie, rent the well-crafted Robert Wise version; it is one of the great SF movies of the 1970s. It is one of the rare movies that really shows science at work, and the scenes of death at Piedmont will always stick with you.