Steven Soderbergh alternates between films about individuals, like Erin Brockovich, and multi-character thrillers, like Contagion, which takes a Traffic-style approach to a deadly pandemic. It also represents a reunion for three actors from The Talented Mr. Ripley as Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon play a suburban Minneapolis couple, while Jude Law (with unflattering dentures) plays a muckraking Bay Area blogger. When Beth (Paltrow) returns from a business trip to Hong Kong, she brings a virus with her that spreads across the world, attracting the attention of people... at the Centers for Disease Control (Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle) and the World Health Organization (Marion Cotillard). Just as virologists frantically try to track down the origins of the pathogen and to find a cure, it starts to mutate, foiling every move they make. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer, captures every development: false rumors, looting in the streets, and mass graves. Whenever he focuses on emptied-out offices and supermarkets, chillers like I Am Legend spring to mind, even if Contagion avoids most sci-fi/horror tropes, except for a stomach-churning autopsy sequence--one of his few real missteps. Mostly, he concentrates on cool heads dealing with life-and-death issues the best they can. The end result registers as more realistic than Outbreak, if less pulse pounding than Traffic, though the final sequence proves Soderbergh can find the grace notes even amidst an unbearable tragedy. --Kathleen C. Fennessy [show more]
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days As the fast-moving epidemic grows the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself At the same time ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart Actors Matt Damon Jude Law Gwyneth Paltrow Kate Winslet Marion Cotillard Jennifer Ehle John Hawkes Laurence Fishburne Bryan Cranston Sanaa Lathan Elliott Gould Dan Latham Steven James Price Demetri Martin & Duke CzlonkaDirector Steven SoderberghCertificate 12 years and overYear 2011Screen 1781Languages English - Dolby Digital (51)Additional Languages Italian ; French ; English Audio descriptive trackSubtitles Italian for the hearing impaired; French for the hearing impaired; English for the hearing impaired; DutchDuration 1 hour and 42 minutes (approx)
Steven Soderbergh directs this multi-starrer thriller charting the rapid progress of a lethal airborne human virus that is spread by simple human contact and kills within days. As the pandemic sweeps the globe, an international team of medics races against time to contain the mutating bug. The cast includes Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law.
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