Outbreak (film)

Outbreak
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Wolfgang Petersen
Written by	Laurence Dworet Robert Roy Pool
Produced by	Gail Katz Arnold Kopelson Wolfgang Petersen
Starring	Dustin Hoffman Rene Russo Morgan Freeman Cuba Gooding Jr. Patrick Dempsey Donald Sutherland Kevin Spacey
Cinematography	Michael Ballhaus
Edited by	William Hoy Lynzee Klingman Stephen E. Rivkin Neil Travis
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Arnold Kopelson Productions Punch Productions, inc.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	March 10, 1995 (1995-03-10)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$50 million
Box office	$189.8 million

Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.

The film focuses on an outbreak of Motaba, a fictional ebolavirus- and orthomyxoviridae-like virus, in Zaire, and later in a small town in California. It is set primarily in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.

The film, released by Warner Bros. March 10, 1995, was a box-office success, and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.^[1] The film's popularity resurged during the COVID-19 pandemic, ranking as the fourth most streamed film in the United States on Netflix, March 13, 2020.^[2]