Outbreak is a superb movie. It has an all star cast of Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland. They all act very well and manage to bring the plot to life. The plot itself involves a monkey causing a disease to infect Cedar Creek, California. ... Read review
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Your heart is racing. You shiver with fear. You've got the fever, the frenzy and all the ... more
thrills. You're watching Outbreak.A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. It knows no boundries. Its mortality rate...
When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying ... more
non-fiction bookThe Hot Zone(purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the US, added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--calledOutbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise ofOutbreak, 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 cinema. 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
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When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying ... more
non-fiction bookThe Hot Zone(purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the US, added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--calledOutbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise ofOutbreak, 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 cinema. 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
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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Pat O'Connor - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over, 15 years and over - Starring: Geraldine O'Rawe, Colin Firth, Saffron Burrows, Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Cast, Acting and plot Disadvantages: none
Outbreak is a superb movie. It has an all star cast of Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland. They all act very well and manage to bring the plot to life. The plot itself involves a monkey causing a disease to infect Cedar Creek, California. This means the town is quarantined and its a race against time to find a cure before the government blown the town up. This makes way for some tense confrontations ... more
Outbreak is a superb movie. It has an all star cast of Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland. They all act very well and manage to bring the plot to life. The plot itself involves a monkey causing a disease to infect Cedar Creek, California. This means the town is quarantined and its a race against time to find a cure before the government blown the town up. This makes way for some tense confrontations between medical researchers and the military and there is even a sprinkle of action. It has great special effects to bring the diseases symptoms to life and although horrible it looks very realistic. All in all it is a unique film that is wonderfully entertaining and I highly recommend it.
...Outbreak, looks at a fictional outbreak of a deadly virus.
Outbreak is about the discovery of a lethal virus called Motaba in Africa, by Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) who works for the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. Daniels asks his superior, Brigadier General Billy Ford (Morgan Freeman) to put out an alert for the disease, but Ford refuses. When the Motaba is transported to US by an infected monkey, ... ...outbreak of the disease, but is again hampered by Ford. Daniels seeks assistance from his ex-wife, Dr Robby Keough (Rene Russo), who works for the Center for Disease Control, and it becomes a race against time to contain the disease before it gets out of control. It also transpires that Ford and Major General Donald McClintock (Donald Sutherland) have history with Motaba in the past when they dealt with the disease unconventionally.
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mozzie76 16.11.2009
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Advantages: Educational about the virus Disadvantages: This virus already exists!
This is a scary story about chemical warfare. In Zaire, a village is infected by a deadly virus called ‘Motaba’, it appears similar to the factual ‘Ebola’ virus, which makes your eyes bleed and eats you from the inside out. The surviving few expect to be picked up by the military but are instead blown up to prevent the spread of the disease. The incident remained on secret file.
A test monkey gets sent to America but is the ... ...but seems to form a bond with a young boy. Soon enough, it scratches a person and within hours, he’s dead.
Cedar Creek, California had just become diseased. With the disease developing on its own, it had now become airborne and begins to spread like wildfire.
Col. Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman), his ex-wife, (Rene Russo), and General Ford, (Morgan Freeman) are sent to investigate. Realising that they have a major problem on their hands to try ...
michellej 30.08.2000 (10.03.2001)
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Advantages: Excellent script and cast Disadvantages: None
This excellent thriller starring Dustin Hoffman takes the viewer from war torn Africa to a US town eventually under Marshall Law. The performances in it are believable and entertaining with Donald Sutherland cropping up in yet another film where he palys an aging baddie! The storyline revolves around a virus thought wiped out by an huge air attack on an African village - organised by Sutherland. Several years later, the virus mutates and infects ... ...The battle is on to find the monkey and produce an antidote - with Sutherland and a reluctant Morgan Freeman doing their best to stop the whole process.
The action doesn't stop until the final few minutes saving the unfortunate town from being wiped out by air attack in a similar that the African village was. Definately see! ...
CliveS 16.07.2000
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I have seen this film at least five times so i know what i'm talking about when i say it is really, really good. I only just saw it again on tv last night and really enjoyed it. It is obviously about a virus that comes from africa to the united states of america via a monkey, which they have to find to get a cure to the virus but there is all the usual complications such as the United States government not agreeing etc. etc. etc. Dustin Hoffman plays ...
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"...Sections of the movie are creepy and exciting....Hoffman is in good, tense form..." (Entertainment Weekly, pp.64-5, 17/03/1995)
"...[The] cinematography is sharp and nimble, giving OUTBREAK a crispness that suits its story..." (New York Times, p.C8, 10/03/1995)
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"...Russo brings considerable warmth to the picture and is convincingly professional....Spacey weighs in with some wry comic relief..." (Variety, 13/03/1995)
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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.
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