Outbreak 1995

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 128 min

genre: action

theme: disaster

director: Wolfgang Petersen

Score: 6 / 10

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 and Morgan Freeman, and co-stars Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.

Plot

In 1967, during the Stanleyville mutinies, a virus called Motaba, which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock and William Ford order the bombing of the camp where soldiers were infected, killing all occupants.

Cast

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author	Laurence Dworet Robert Roy Pool
contentLocation	Atlanta California San Francisco
director	Wolfgang Petersen
editor	Lynzee Klingman Neil Travis Stephen E. Rivkin William Hoy
events	epidemic
genre	action thriller
keywords	african airborne airborne transmission animal testing antibody antiserum army officer arrest biological weapon bomb break capture capuchin monkey cdc centers for disease control and prevention colonel deadly fever fly infect influenza joshua lederberg jungle kill lieutenant colonel major martial law movie theatre mutate republic of the congo stanleyville mutinies superspreading event test thermobaric bomb thermobaric weapon u.s. army united states army united states army medical research institute of infectious diseases usamriid viral hemorrhagic fever virologist virology virus white-faced capuchin white-headed capuchin young boy young daughter zaire
musicBy	James Newton Howard
producer	Arnold Kopelson Gail Katz Wolfgang Petersen
productionCompany	Arnold Kopelson Productions Punch Productions, inc.
publisher	Warner Bros. Pictures
recordedAt	California Hawaii
theme	disaster