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Outbreak
on DVD (1995)
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| Starring: |
Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Patrick Dempsey, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey |
| Director: |
Wolfgang Petersen |
| Studio: |
WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time: |
123 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
Not necessarily the best films in the world but I just can't stop watching them |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, Croatian, Czech, English, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Turkish |
| Released: |
11/05/1998
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| Also Available on: |
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Brief synopsis of Outbreak
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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Radio Times
In this exciting eco-thriller, Dustin Hoffman plays an army medic who's trying to save the world from a lethal virus imported into America from Africa. You could read this as an Aids allegory, but it also works well as a regular against-the-clock jeopardy thriller with conspiracy cover-up overtones. Director Wolfgang Petersen marshals the effects superbly and there's terrific support from the likes of Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and a particularly nasty Donald Sutherland. If Hoffman lacks the requisite heroic quality needed for the lead, you certainly feel you could put your trust in him.
Halliwell's Film Guide
An increasingly risible thriller that begins well and then becomes a fevered exercise in sub-James Bond heroics, with a military villain straight out of a comic book.
Variety
"...Russo brings considerable warmth to the picture and is convincingly professional....Spacey weighs in with some wry comic relief..."
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