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Your heart is racing. You shiver with fear. You've caught what's going around. You've got the fever, the frenzy and all the thrills. You're watching Outbreak. Big-name stars join director Wolfgang Peterson (Air Force One) for big excitement in this breathless technothriller. Two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman plays Sam Daniels, a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. It knows no boundaries. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb to town and everyone in it. Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr and Kevin Spacey co-star in this nail-biting tale of the day that could become doomsday. Subtitled in Spanish.
"One of the great scare stories of our time. I was hooked." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
In director Wolfgang Petersen's fast-paced, intelligently written thriller, Dustin Hoffman plays Col. Sam Daniels, an expert on infectious diseases who is called in to study the outbreak of a deadly illness in Zaire. He finds a virus that spreads so quickly it could wipe out an entire nation in just a few weeks, and he believes that it might have spread to the United States. With the help of his ex-wife (Rene Russo), who works at the Centers for Disease Control, Daniels tracks the virus to the quiet seaside town of Cedar Creek, California. His superiors' reticence to help begins to raise questions in Daniels's mind, and he must find a cure before a panicky U.S. army general decides to kill the town's populace in order to save the world. The all-star cast includes Hoffman, Russo, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Morgan Freeman, and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Plot Summary
When an African monkey gets loose and spreads a lethal virus, government and military personnel move in to try and stop it before the fast-moving disease wipes out the entire U.S. population.
| Features | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs/Sandard Version | | Production Notes | | Audio: English & French Dolby 5.1 Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 2/8/2005 |
| Running Time: 128 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 13632 | | UPC: 00085391363224 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...A tense cautionary tale..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 03/10/1995 p.1DEntertainment Weekly
"...Sections of the movie are creepy and exciting....Hoffman is in good, tense form..." 03/17/1995 pp.64-5 Variety
"...Russo brings considerable warmth to the picture and is convincingly professional....Spacey weighs in with some wry comic relief..." 03/13/1995 New York Times
"...[The] cinematography is sharp and nimble, giving OUTBREAK a crispness that suits its story..." 03/10/1995 p.C8 Chicago Sun-Times
"...OUTBREAK is a clever, daunting thriller....The roles are well written and acted..." 03/10/1995 p.31 San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
...Outbreak is a lot scarier than your standard thriller...a genuine original...slickly constructed...[an] intelligent and satisfying thriller...[it] never lets up. - Mick LaSalle
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