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starring: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303484327
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6303484328
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: March 26, 1996
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 20035
Studio: Warner Home Video
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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Rating:  - Outbreak - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
VC-1 BD-25 / Advanced Profile 3
Running time: 2:08:12
Movie size: 22,336,395,264 bytes
Disc size: 22,710,846,208 bytes
Average video bit rate: 14.99 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1685 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1685kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
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Rating:  - Outbreak
This is a great movie, very well done. It's so realalistic that it is scarey. Makes you really wonder and pray this will never happen in our lifetime.
Rating: - OutBreak
I'll keep this short. Of all the virus genre movies I have ever watched, this one is by far the best. The acting was superb as was all else associated with this movie. Of all disaster movies in general I have watched, this ranks near or at the top of the list, bar none! Where was this gem hiding all this time?
Rating: - Scarier than any horror flick -- and ultra-suspenseful
THE PLOT: After a deadly incurable African virus is brought to a Northern California coastal town via a monkey, the military moves in to quarantine the village. While Dustin Hoffman seeks to find an antidote, the two generals in charge of the quarantine (Morgan Freeman & Donald Sutherland) strangely decide to annihilate the town. Can Hoffman find a cure in time? And, even if he does, can he stop the firebombing?
I remember when Wolfgang Petersen's "Outbreak" came out in 1995; the ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie
I love disaster flicks and this one did not disappoint. It had all the qualities I love about such movies: the person/people who puts money/ego ahead of people's safety dies, the hero gets the girl, and the hero goes back into the disaster area when everyone else is leaving.
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