Try to remain calm.
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Dustin HoffmanSam Daniels
- Rene RussoRobby Keough
- Morgan FreemanGeneral Billy Ford
- Kevin SpaceyCasey Schuler
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Major Salt
- Donald SutherlandGeneral Donald McClintock
- Patrick DempseyJimbo Scott
- Zakes MokaeDr. Benjamin Iwabi
- Malick BowensDr. Raswani
- Susan Lee HoffmanDr. Lisa Aronson
Crew
- Wolfgang PetersenDirector
- Robert Roy PoolScreenplay
- Laurence DworetScreenplay
- Michael BallhausDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Neil TravisEditor
- Lynzee KlingmanEditor
- William HoyEditor
- Arnold KopelsonProducer
- Wolfgang PetersenProducer
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