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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, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.
Motaba, a fictional virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To maintain the virus as a viable biological weapon, two U.S. Army officers, Donald McClintock and William Ford, destroy the camp where it was found after taking blood samples from the dying victims.
Mar 10, 1995 · Wolfgang Petersen's "Outbreak" is a clever, daunting thriller about such a possibility. It follows the career of a microscopic bug that kills humans within 24 hours of exposure by liquefying the internal organs.
OUTBREAK begins in Zaire, 1967, where a deadly hemorrhagic virus is killing both American army soldiers and mercenaries. After taking a blood sample from a dying patient, an army doctor leaves the outpost and orders the place bombed, wiping out all the people, and virus, he's left behind.
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Dustin Hoffman
Apr 15, 2020 · “Outbreak” follows a team of U.S. Army medical researchers as they struggle to contain a fictitious disease, dubbed the Motaba virus, that’s quickly spreading in a California town.
From a health and science perspective, I felt this film, for the most part, accurately portrayed the spread of infectious disease. This film was also good for getting people to think about the consequences of engaging in biological warfare. I gave the movie three scales of justice for its
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Mar 16, 2020 · The 1995 film Outbreak offers a narrow vision of heroism during an epidemiological crisis. That message is ill-suited to the realities of the coronavirus.
