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Outbreak
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6.6A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- research
- army
- general
- river
- monkey
- epidemic
- medical research
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Written by
- Laurence Dworet Robert Roy Pool
- Produced by
- Gail Katz Arnold Kopelson Wolfgang Petersen
- Starring
- Dustin Hoffman Rene Russo Morgan Freeman Cuba Gooding Jr. Patrick Dempsey Donald Sutherland Kevin Spacey
- Cinematography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Edited by
- William Hoy Lynzee Klingman Stephen E. Rivkin Neil Travis
- Music by
- James Newton Howard
- Production companies
- Arnold Kopelson Productions Punch Productions, inc.
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- March 10, 1995 ( 1995-03-10 )
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- >$50 million
- Box office
- $189.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 128
- FilmAffinity ID
- 861418
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- publication date
- 1995-03-30
- title
- Outbreak
- capital cost
- 50000000
- box office
- 189800000
- review score
- 60%
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Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, and co-stars Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.
The film focuses on an outbreak of Motaba, a fictional ebolavirus- and orthomyxoviridae-like virus, in Zaire, and later in a small town in California. It is set primarily in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.