Outbreak
1995 · Movie · R · 129 min · ★ 6.6 · 62% critics
A deadly airborne virus reaches the USA and spreads rapidly, driving an epidemic that quickly overwhelms a small town. A disease-control team led by a military colonel must stop the outbreak and contain the area, all while trying to prevent extreme decisions from higher-ups.
Based on The Hot Zone
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Details
- Years
- 1995
- Release date
- 1995-03-10
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Critic score
- 62/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (2,484 votes)
- Box office
- $189,800,000
- Budget
- $50,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this tense, big-cast pandemic thriller with a race-against-spreading-virus premise and lots of suspense; Not for you if you want strict realism or prefer purely character-driven plots over disaster and military conflict, like Contagion (2011) or The Perfect Storm (2000).
Pros: intense outbreak tension; strong all-star cast; virus spread scares | Cons: some events feel unrealistic; turns into action; length drags midsection
Themes
- research
- army
- general
- river
- monkey
- epidemic
- medical research
Cast & crew
Dustin Hoffman
as Sam Daniels
Rene Russo
as Robby Keough
Morgan Freeman
as General Billy Ford
Kevin Spacey
as Casey Schuler
Cuba Gooding Jr.
as Major Salt
Donald Sutherland
as General Donald McClintock
Patrick Dempsey
as Jimbo Scott
Zakes Mokae
as Dr. Benjamin Iwabi
Malick Bowens
as Dr. Raswani
Susan Lee Hoffman
as Dr. Lisa Aronson
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen