Outbreak

[Ivy]

"Try to remain calm...have they lost their fucking mind, PANIC!!!"

Summary:
A virus similar to Ebola & Lassa is discovered in Africa in 1969. 25 years later, it resurfaces - and Col. Sam Daniels of the U.S. Army is sent in to investigate it. When he returns he warns his boss, Brigadier-Gen. Ford, of the lethal nature of the virus and wants to put out an alert. Ford, who had been one of the men who first dealt with the virus, insists the virus is contained and unlikely to show up in the U.S. What neither man knows is that the host - a monkey - has been brought into the U.S. by freighter. Through an under-the-table bribe, a young man gets the monkey out of the animal-testing lab it was bound for. Soon, the man is infected - and Col. Daniels' ex-wife, Dr. Keough - now with the CDC - is called into Boston when the young man is brought to a hospital in critical condition. Dr. Keough discovers that the man has died from the virus, and at the same time - on the other side of the country - a new outbreak is starting in a little California town. A quarantine is set up to stop the virus from spreading, while Ford's boss, the sinister Major-Gen. McClintock, has his own agenda in mind - to harness this lethal bug for use as a bioweapon. With the President about to order a fuel-air bomb to be dropped on the little town to stop the outbreak, Daniels must find a way to unravel McClintock's sinister plan...

Awards/Nominations
Won - Top Box Office Film and Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Motion-Picture and Best Science Fiction Film

All-Starr Cast - This has to be a the greatest decision made by Director Wolfgang Peterson and Screenwriters to bring together some of the greatest actors/actresses into one motion picture!
Dustin Hoffman
Rene Russo
Morgan Freeman
Keven Spacey
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Donald Sutherland
Patrick Dempsey

Review:
This movie was originally released in 1995! A time which seems to be the greatest Era of Sci-Fi, Drama, and Suspense based films. This movie is far ahead of it's time. And it has caused several "copy-cats" to emerge based on the whole "Quarantine" concept. This movie has the greatest actors coming together and molding perfectly with each other. The actors play their role perfectly and I couldn't ask for a better performance. The story-line had its' ups and downs, but this movie is still in my top 100 favorites. Another great Sci-Fi movie in production during this time was Independence Day.