History Film / Outbreak

* OhCrap: "It's Airborne"

* OhCrap: --> "It's Airborne"

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Daniels encounters one of these, but convinces him to cut the crap by informing him that he has come all the way from the disease-infected city, clutching the man's hands very earnestly, and offering to cough on him if he doesn't believe him.

'''''Outbreak''''' (1995) is a suspense {{film}} starring Creator/DustinHoffman , Rene Russo, and Creator/DonaldSutherland (among many others-Creator/MorganFreeman, Creator/KevinSpacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.) depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States. The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a [[DuelingMovies counter-production]] to a film adaptation of the novel ''The Burning Zone'' that never materialized.

* AllStarCast: Just look at all the names in the description!

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[GreysAnatomy McDreamy]] plays the original owner of the monkey, and the first to die of the virus.
** J.T. Walsh, uncredited, plays the White House Chief of Staff that wants you to burn the faces of the residents of Cedar Creek into your memory.
** Hell, ''Kevin Spacey'' is in the movie and hardly anyone notices.
** Don't forget Betsy the monkey, aka [[{{Friends}} Marcel]].
** [[TheShield David Aceveda]] is one of Robby's co-workers at the CDC.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Daniels does this so much that his superiors just barely tolerate him. If he weren't as good as he is, he'd probably be reassigned or discharged.

* GeneralRipper: [=McClintock=], who's go-to option for disease control can be summed up as "KillItWithFire". [[spoiler:This is because he wants Motaba as a biological weapon, which won't work if it can be cured by anyone else.]]

-->Those are the citizens of Cedar Creek, go ahead take a look at them - these are [[AMillionIsAStatistic not statistics]] ladies and gentlemen - they're flesh and blood! I want you to burn those images into your memories, because they should haunt you until the day you die!

'''''Outbreak''''' (1995) is a suspense {{film}} starring DustinHoffman , Rene Russo, and DonaldSutherland (among many others-MorganFreeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.) depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States. The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a [[DuelingMovies counter-production]] to a film adaptation of the novel ''The Burning Zone'' that never materialized.

-->"General [=McClintock=], with all due respect, fuck you. Sir."

** Completely inverted later in the movie, when it is mentioned two children died from the new strain of Motabe.

* DramaticDrop: The mom to the little girl who has befriended a monkey she's named "Betsy" drops what she's doing when she sees the announcement that the monkey is a carrier for the deadly Motaba virus.

'''''Outbreak''''' (1995) is a suspense {{film}} starring DustinHoffman , Rene Russo, and Donald Sutherland (among many others-Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.) depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States. The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a [[DuelingMovies counter-production]] to a film adaptation of the novel ''The Burning Zone'' that never materialized.

* FailsafeFailure: A lab technician is infected with ThePlague when he carelessly opens and reaches into a centrifuge while it's still spinning, breaking a vial of infected blood and cutting his hand. In RealLife, lids on centrifuges lock until the spinning has completely stopped; it's ''impossible'' to open one while it's still in motion.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Microbiologists cringe at this movie in the way astrophysicists cringe at ''{{Armageddon}}''.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Wisely navigated when demonstrating the impact on the town's populace. The soldiers begin rounding up infectees in the quarantined small town, and we get to see only one woman say a tearful goodbye to her family. We follow her for a few minutes while they take a blood sample during her initial medical exam. There is even a close up of the phial, labeled "Sample 612". In a later scene, we see a scientist examining blood slides:
-->'''Scientist:''' "Sample 607: Infected. 608: Infected. 609: Infected. ''*Frustrated sigh*'' They can't all be infected. 610... Infected. 611...Infected. 612... Damn! Still infected!"
** We're later treated to a shot of her in a body bag.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Inverted. A [[MisplacedWildlife capuchin monkey]] captured in Africa for the pet trade turns out to carry Motaba, infecting the first human victims and causing the outbreak. On the other hand, she is adopted by a little girl (whose mother thinks it's an ImaginaryFriend), and turns out to have the needed antibodies for the virus that the CDC need to make a cure.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A [[MisplacedWildlife capuchin monkey]] captured in Africa for the pet trade turns out to carry Motaba, infecting the first human victims and causing the outbreak. On the other hand, she is adopted by a little girl (whose mother thinks it's an ImaginaryFriend), and turns out to have the needed antibodies for the virus that the CDC need to make a cure.

Imagine you are hunting a killer. The perpetrator is insidious, invisible, and deadly. It is smart and reactive. Its victims die in horrifying pain. There is no reasoning with it, no bargaining with it, and no way to stop it. The military wants to avoid a panic. The media questions the methods being used to stop it. It is a billionth your size.