Outbreak (1995)

Release date: 1995-03-10
Country: USA
Language: English|Korean|French
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Production Co: Warner Bros., Arnold Kopelson Productions, Punch Productions
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 6.6/10
Length: 2h 7min

Storyline

When a disease in Africa is discovered, Colonel Sam Daniels of the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases or USAMRIID, is sent to investigate. When he reports back to his superior officer General Ford and tells him that they should put out an alert on this disease but the General that since the disease is so far away and not airborne that it can't possibly reach the U.S. However, a monkey from that part of Africa was captured and brought to the U.S. and a man who works at the customs house took it and tried to sell it but when the person he tried to sell it to rejected it he released it. Later the man who arrived in Boston collapses and dies, Col. Daniels wants to look into it but General Ford denies his request so he turns to his ex-wife, who works at the Center for Disease Control or CDC to look into and they discover it's the African disease but since it kills very quickly, Col. Daniels feels that it's been contained until another outbreak!

Plot Keywords

virus, epidemic, monkey, disease, quarantine, jumping from a helicopter, army, helicopter, hazmat suit, golden gate bridge, cookie, house on fire, exploding building, pistol, mother daughter relationship, korean war veteran, camouflage uniform, bunk bed, masked man, machine gun

Short Review

Petersen's vigilant, enlivening direction never allows the story's death-of-mankind topic to undermine its personal powers, deftly mixing in humor, as well as other tonal lighteners, to nurture it.