Contagion
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Contagion is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The movie depicts the rapid spread of a deadly airborne virus and the global efforts to contain it. It follows a diverse group of characters, including scientists, medical professionals, and ordinary citizens, as they navigate the escalating pandemic. The film explores themes of public health, societal breakdown, and the search for a cure, highlighting the interconnectedness of the world in the face of a global health crisis.12
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Marion Cotillard…virus in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Contagion. Cotillard’s character in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) was the love interest for the tortured superhero Batman. In the gritty romance De rouille et d’os (2012; Rust and Bone), she starred as an orca trainer struggling to recover from the loss of her legs…
Read More…virus in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Contagion. Cotillard’s character in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) was the love interest for the tortured superhero Batman. In the gritty romance De rouille et d’os (2012; Rust and Bone), she starred as an orca trainer struggling to recover from the loss of her legs…
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Matt DamonThe Departed, Invictus, and True GritDick; Contagion, Soderbergh’s thriller about a deadly virus; and We Bought a Zoo, adapted from a memoir about a family who moves to a wildlife park. Damon then wrote with costar John Krasinski the drama Promised Land (2012), in which Damon played a gas-company representative seeking…
Read MoreDick; Contagion, Soderbergh’s thriller about a deadly virus; and We Bought a Zoo, adapted from a memoir about a family who moves to a wildlife park. Damon then wrote with costar John Krasinski the drama Promised Land (2012), in which Damon played a gas-company representative seeking…
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Laurence FishburneFilm roles…executive in the epidemiological thriller Contagion. In the Superman movie Man of Steel (2013), he played Clark Kent’s newspaper-editor boss. He reprised the role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Fishburne’s other films from 2016 included Passengers, a sci-fi romance about hibernating space travelers heading to another
Read More…executive in the epidemiological thriller Contagion. In the Superman movie Man of Steel (2013), he played Clark Kent’s newspaper-editor boss. He reprised the role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Fishburne’s other films from 2016 included Passengers, a sci-fi romance about hibernating space travelers heading to another
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Kate WinsletMildred Pierce and Steve Jobs…films, she then appeared in Contagion (2011), as an epidemiologist analyzing the spread of a deadly virus, and in the satiric comedy Carnage (2011), as one of four parents entangled in a dispute about child rearing. She played a single mother who develops a relationship with an escaped convict in…
Read More…films, she then appeared in Contagion (2011), as an epidemiologist analyzing the spread of a deadly virus, and in the satiric comedy Carnage (2011), as one of four parents entangled in a dispute about child rearing. She played a single mother who develops a relationship with an escaped convict in…
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