Outbreak [Region 2] | ![Outbreak [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/212875N26XL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Category: DVD
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 303380
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), Korean (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 13632
EAN: 7321921136320
ASIN: B00004RYAP
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1995
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When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying nonfiction book The Hot Zone (purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the U.S., added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot), and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--called Outbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise of Outbreak, which owes something to Elia Kazan's 1950 plague-scare movie, Panic in the Streets, is as terrifying as it is timely. As developers slash their way deeper into the previously unexplored tropical rainforests, they are exposed to radically new forms of life, including diseases, that in these days of commonplace international travel could turn into deadly epidemics almost before we know it. Hoffman's character and his estranged wife (Rene Russo) are disease experts called in to identify the unknown killer, which was carried into the country by an illegally smuggled monkey. The best sequence shows the disease spreading--through recycled air on a passenger jet, or a sneeze in a crowded movie theater. The final chase is pretty conventional, but the cast is terrific, including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., J.T. Walsh, and Zakes Mokae. --Jim Emerson
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 Excellent!! March 20, 2010
Madelyn Labrador (Carolina, PR)
This is the kind of movie that I can see over and over and over and over again an I still love it!!!!!
Outbreak that didn't break the bank January 20, 2010
Theresa Burckley (Cherry Hill, NJ)
I purchased this movie for my son who is now in Afghanistan as it is his favorite. We both love to watch it and I was so happy that you had it as it is an old made for TV picture.
Outbreak (Snap Case) January 19, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. Suspenseful, well-crafted thriller movie, very entertaining.
"Virus-scare" of our time!!!! July 2, 2009
Cedric Cash (New Mexico)
This is one fantastic movie!!! I belive that everyone should take the time to watch this film, cuz' it illustates what could "really" happen, if a virus infection had an outbreak-hence, the title.
The director: Wolfgang Peterson, has also had some other great films as well-such as: TROY, POSEIDEN, Das BOOTE (I've never seen das boote; been meaning to check it out-i heard it's such a great German-made film!!).
The movie, "OUTBREAK" is also filled with a good amount of action and suspense, thus also making it high on my list of good flix!!!
So, check out OUTBREAK ASAP-you won't be disappointed!!!!!
Very entertaining and informative May 27, 2009
Harry (Right Here, USA)
As great as the first time I watched it! This is a classic power gone bad film! Can this really happen? Bet your bottom dollar it can... and has! Watch it, love it, and watch it again!
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