Outbreak

Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly?

• Director:Wolfgang Petersen
• Genre:Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
• Runtime:128 minutes

Cast

Dustin Hoffman : Col. Sam Daniels
Rene Russo : Robby Keough
Morgan Freeman : Brig. Gen. Billy Ford
Kevin Spacey : Maj. Casey Schuler
Cuba Gooding Jr.: Maj. Salt

In 1967, the Motaba virus is discovered in a mercenary camp in Africa and kept top secret. Two soldiers order the camp bombed to cover up the discovery.

Thirty years later the virus resurfaces in Africa. Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman), a USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) virologist is sent to investigate. He and his crew gain information about the virus and return to the United States where he asks his superior, Brigadier General Billy Ford (Morgan Freeman), to put out an alert. Ford, who knows the virus is not new, tells Sam it is unlikely to show up. Meanwhile, one of the host animals, a White-fronted Capuchin monkey, has been illegally brought to the United States. Jimbo Scott (Patrick Dempsey) takes the monkey to Cedar Creek, California. During the trip, Jimbo is infected with the virus.

Trying to sell the monkey to a pet store, the owner, who becomes infected as well, tells Jimbo the monkey is the wrong gender. Jimbo releases the monkey into the woods. Jimbo starts to show signs of infection while flying to Boston, where he gets off the plane and kisses his girlfriend, infecting her. They are both hospitalized. A Centers for Disease Control scientist, Robby Keough (Rene Russo) who happens to be Sam’s ex-wife, investigates the infections. Jimbo, his girlfriend, and the pet store owner die from the virus. Robby finds that no one else in Boston was infected.

While the techs at a Cedar Creek hospital run tests on the pet store owner’s blood, one of them inadvertently reaches into a spinning centrifuge. The vial inside breaks, splattering the tech and infecting him. He later goes to a packed movie theater and exposes numerous Cedar Creek citizens to the virus. Sam learns of the infection and wants to be sent there, but Ford orders him to New Mexico to investigate an outbreak of Hantavirus to prevent him from learning too much about the Motaba virus. Sam disobeys the order and flies to Cedar Creek, joining Robby’s team. Read more

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