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Outbreak is a 1995 American drama, thriller, and disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Produced by Petersen and Arnold Kopelson, the film was written after a work by Richard Preston. It features music by James Newton Howard, cinematography by Michael Ballhaus, and editing by Neil Travis.
The narrative is set in California, Atlanta, and San Francisco, with filming taking place in California and Hawaii. The film is in English and French, has a runtime of 128 to 129 minutes, and centers on an epidemic. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix in video on demand format.
Outbreak had a production budget of 50,000,000 and generated box office revenue of approximately 189,800,000 to 189,900,000. It received a rating of 6.6 on IMDb and 6.565 on TMDb. The film’s tagline is "Try to remain calm."
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6.6A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Sam Daniels
- Rene Russo as Robby Keough
- Morgan Freeman as General Billy Ford
- Kevin Spacey as Casey Schuler
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Major Salt
- Donald Sutherland as General Donald McClintock
Themes
- research
- army
- general
- river
- monkey
- epidemic
- medical research
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Written by
- Laurence Dworet Robert Roy Pool
- Produced by
- Gail Katz Arnold Kopelson Wolfgang Petersen
- Starring
- Dustin Hoffman Rene Russo Morgan Freeman Cuba Gooding Jr. Patrick Dempsey Donald Sutherland Kevin Spacey
- Cinematography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Edited by
- William Hoy Lynzee Klingman Stephen E. Rivkin Neil Travis
- Music by
- James Newton Howard
- Production companies
- Arnold Kopelson Productions Punch Productions, inc.
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- March 10, 1995 ( 1995-03-10 )
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- >$50 million
- Box office
- $189.8 million
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