Believing he is close to finding a viable cell culture, Sussman violates the order and identifies a usable cell culture, from which Hextall develops a vaccine. Hextall orders University of California, San Francisco researcher Dr. Cheever determines the virus too virulent to be researched at multiple labs and restricts all work to one government site. Scientists are unable to discover a cell culture to grow the newly identified MEV-1. Ally Hextall determines the virus is a combination of genetic material from pig and bat-borne viruses. As the novel virus spreads, several cities are placed under quarantine, causing panic buying, widespread looting, and violence.Īt the CDC, Dr. Soon after, Mears becomes infected and dies. She negotiates with reluctant local bureaucrats to commit resources for a public health response. Erin Mears, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, to Minneapolis where she traces everyone having had contact with Beth. Ellis Cheever of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over concerns that the disease may be a bioweapon. In Atlanta, Department of Homeland Security representatives meet with Dr. After being released, he protectively keeps his teenage daughter, Jory, quarantined at home. Mitch is isolated but found to be naturally immune. Returning home, Mitch finds that his 6-year-old stepson, Clark, has also died. Two days later, back home in suburban Minneapolis, Beth's husband, Mitch, rushes her to the hospital when she suffers a seizure she dies from a previously unknown virus. Returning from a Hong Kong business trip, Beth Emhoff has an affair with her ex-boyfriend during a Chicago layover. The film received renewed popularity in 2020 due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics praised it for its narrative and the performances, as did scientists for its accuracy.
Commercially, the film made $136.5 million against its $60 million production budget.
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.Ĭontagion premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy on September 3, 2011, and was theatrically released on September 9, 2011. Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well as medical experts such as W. Burns discussed a film depicting the rapid spread of a virus. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style, popularized in several of Soderbergh's films.įollowing their collaboration on The Informant! (2009), Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. The plot concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by respiratory droplets and fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Marion Cotillard. Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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