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Sep 9, 2011 · Contagion: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Daria Strokous. Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2011-09-09
Apr 2, 2020 · Directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns, the film follows the spread of a virus transmitted when sick humans touch surfaces and leave virus behind that others can catch.
- 3 min
Feb 16, 2020 · We asked epidemiologists and doctors to assess the science in the 2011 movie, in which the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow starts a global pandemic. Spoiler alert: It does a pretty good job.
- Fran Kritz
Contagion is a 2011 American medical disaster thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Contagion" is a realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic. It's being marketed as a thriller, a frightening speculation about how a new airborne virus could enter the human species and spread relentlessly in very little time. This scenario is already familiar to us through the apparently annual outbreaks of influenza.
For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of combating it, a process that will likely take several months.
Sep 10, 2021 · Steven Soderbergh 's prescient 2011 pandemic thriller, starring Matt Damon and Kate Winslet has arguably become the defining film of the COVID era, with viewers binging on the movie ever since...
