Contagion

Contagion

By Steven Soderbergh

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release Date: 2011-09-09
  • Advisory Rating: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Director: Steven Soderbergh
  • Production Company: Participant
  • Production Country: United States of America, United Arab Emirates
  • iTunes Price: USD 12.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
6.6/10
6.6
From 6,022 Ratings

Description

When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minneapolis from business in Hong Kong, what she thought was jet lag takes a virulent turn. Two days later, she’s dead in the ER and the doctors tell her shocked and grieving husband (Matt Damon) they have no idea why. Soon more cases are reported as the virus begins to spread. Researchers mobilize to break the code of this unique biological pathogen as it continues to mutate. Deputy Director Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) tries to allay the growing panic despite his own personal concerns, and must send a brave young doctor (Kate Winslet) into harm’s way. As the death toll escalates and people struggle to protect themselves and their loved ones in a society breaking down, one activist blogger (Jude Law) claims the public isn’t getting the truth about what’s really going on, and sets off an epidemic of paranoia and fear as infectious as the virus itself.

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Reviews

  • The film that started out as a suspense thriller and turned into a documentary

    5
    By namaste863
    Saw this movie for the first time several years ago. It scared the piss out of me then. Who knew we would end up living it?
  • Excellent

    5
    By DrScreenplay
    So we’ll written. Amazing how close it is to our current pandemic. They actually underestimated Jude Laws character in todays media. I’ve watched several times.
  • eerily accurate

    5
    By mikewest71
    I saw this in 2011 and knew this was a plausible scenario, based on real scientific facts. the movie was always in the back of my mind as we started the covid pandemic. Now, a year and a half into the pandemic I finally watched it again. The scenario writers deserve a retroactive Oscar for predicting the future.Everything we have experienced in the past 18 months was here. There is the phrase 'social distancing'. There is a blogger selling quack remedies and saying the vaccine was developed 'too quickly'. There is a line with masked people and one man loudly asserting his wish to be unmasked. There is even the bored teenager who breaks lockdown rules. Knowing what we know now, it is amazing how they figured all of this out 10 years ago. Not just the accurate science of viral dissemination, but alse the science of human behaviour faced with a crisis.
  • Hits different in 2020/2021

    4
    By Itslitfam16
    This movie was quite realistic ngl
  • Scary

    4
    By trealor
    Great to watch during Covid to scare the crap out of you even more. Just like watching slasher films in the dark. Plus Matt Damon and Laurence fishburne, my two favorite actors, star in it, and were incredible. Definitely recommended
  • Great movie

    5
    By Steven815
    Looks like a great movie for this Halloween
  • Fantastic movie, but...

    5
    By Mr. X the writer
    Fantastic movie. I love everything about it! The cast, the story, the suspense, everything! But, there’s one problem. Everyone bringing attention to COVID and saying that this movie is like COVID!! And, also, COVID PSAs being added to this movie! I HATE everyone for trying to bring attention to COVID 19!!! South Park is doing it now!! And, what, you guys are poisoning my iTunes library with COVID now?!! But, aside from all that, Contagion is an excellent, awesome movie that’s nothing like today and people are just overreacting.
  • Interesting

    5
    By ALLTHE KINGS MEN
    Who knew something like that would actually happen, Covid-19. But it was a good movie.
  • Awesome movie

    5
    By cccccccccccc11111111
    I really liked it
  • Ahead of its time

    5
    By johnwitherell
    This film is so accurate it scares me still in late 2020, even though COVID hasn’t turned out to be as bad as the virus portrayed in the movie. It portrays a virus originating in China, modern plane transportation speeding up its’ spread, and even the small detail that the virus comes from a bat. I watched this when it came out in 2011, and I had ever heard of contact tracing or r0, but this movie introduced it to me and actually helped me understand this pandemic. This is because the writers took advice from actual scientific advisors. While plot wise this film isn’t the greatest the raw details and accuracy is almost shocking, and for that alone I give this movie 5 stars.

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