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Contagion
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Contagion is a 2011 American drama, thriller, and disaster film directed by Steven Soderbergh, who also served as the director of photography. The screenplay was written by Scott Z. Burns, with Stacey Sher as the producer. The cast includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jude Law. The film’s main subject is an epidemic, and the narrative takes place in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Switzerland. Filming occurred in San Francisco, Geneva, Vevey, and Hong Kong.
Produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Participant, Image Nation, and Warner Bros. Pictures, the English-language film has a runtime of 106 minutes. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Pictures. The original motion picture soundtrack was released in 2011.
The film had a budget of 60000000. Box office revenue figures are listed as 135458097 and 137551594. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 6.8 based on 331302 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 6.65 from 6526 votes.
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6.6As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Cast
- Marion Cotillard as Leonora Orantes
- Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff
- Laurence Fishburne as Ellis Cheever
- Jude Law as Alan Krumwiede
- Kate Winslet as Erin Mears
- Jennifer Ehle as Ally Hextall
Themes
- quarantine
- saving the world
- mutation
- infection
- terminal illness
- outbreak
- disease
- vaccine
- lethal virus
- scientist
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Steven Soderbergh
- Written by
- Scott Z. Burns
- Produced by
- Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher Gregory Jacobs
- Starring
- Marion Cotillard Matt Damon Laurence Fishburne Jude Law Gwyneth Paltrow Kate Winslet Bryan Cranston Jennifer Ehle Sanaa Lathan
- Cinematography
- Peter Andrews
- Edited by
- Stephen Mirrione
- Music by
- Cliff Martinez
- Production companies
- Participant Media Imagenation Abu Dhabi Double Feature Films
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- September 3, 2011 ( 2011-09-03 ) ( Venice ) September 9, 2011 ( 2011-09-09 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60 million
- Box office
- $136.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The plot concerns the spread of a highly contagious virus transmitted through respiratory droplets and fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order as the virus turns into a worldwide pandemic, and the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style, popularized in several of Soderbergh's films. The film was inspired by real-life outbreaks such as the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak and the 2009 flu pandemic.
Following their collaboration on The Informant! (2009), Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns discussed a film depicting the rapid spread of a virus. Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well as medical experts such as W. Ian Lipkin and Larry Brilliant. Principal photography started in Hong Kong in September 2010, and continued in Chicago, Atlanta, London, Dublin, Geneva, and San Francisco Bay Area until February 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contagion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.