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Mar 10, 1995 · Outbreak: Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. With Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey. Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
- (135K)
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Wolfgang Petersen
- 1995-03-10
A white-headed capuchin monkey that is host to the virus is smuggled into the country. James "Jimbo" Scott, a worker at an animal testing laboratory, is infected when he steals the monkey to sell on the black market. Jimbo takes the monkey to Rudy Alvarez, a pet-store proprietor in the coastal-California village of Cedar Creek.
- $50 million
- James Newton Howard
- March 10, 1995
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A dangerous airborne virus threatens civilization in this tense thriller. After an African monkey carrying a lethal virus is smuggled into the U.S., an outbreak occurs in a California town.
- (64)
- Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama, Horror
- R
Mar 10, 1995 · As we follow the disintegration of their relationship, Petersen intercuts scenes showing an African monkey being illegally imported into the United States. This monkey, of course, carries the deadly bug, and the smuggler, unable to sell it, releases it in a California woodland, although not before being infected.
