As 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.
Direction
Soderbergh's detached coldness makes it scarier.
Editing
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 — time as weapon.
Score
Cliff Martinez's electronic dread hums underneath.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Marion Cotillard
Leonora Orantes
Matt Damon
Mitch Emhoff
Laurence Fishburne
Ellis Cheever
Jude Law
Alan Krumwiede
Kate Winslet
Erin Mears
Jennifer Ehle
Ally Hextall
Gwyneth Paltrow
Beth Emhoff
Bryan Cranston
Lyle Haggerty
Elliott Gould
Ian Sussman
Chin Han
Sun Feng
John Hawkes
Roger
Anna Jacoby-Heron
Jory Emhoff
Sanaa Lathan
Aubrey Cheever
Demetri Martin
David Eisenberg
Armin Rohde
Damian Leopold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kate Winslet's character dies because she touched her face once — the film's most brutal lesson.
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns consulted with WHO and CDC; the fictional MEV-1 virus was modeled on Nipah and SARS.
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