Contagion: An IMAX Experience

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  • Opened September 9, 2011 
  • 1 hr 45 min
  • PG-13 | disturbing content and some language
  • When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne
  • Director: Steven Soderbergh
  • Genres: IMAX

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Cool movie trailers, great movie

by rockydoggies

Usually when you have too many great actors together in one movie it turns into a dud, but this thought provoking movie is the exception. The movie doesn't beg the question of "What If" but explores...

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An Indeph Look at Human Reaction

by JasonFil

Under the pressures of limited time meets a swift end to ones life unless the red tape may be sliced through. This movie presents what we as a society all know and yet have trouble facing the hard...

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Very Realistic

by MedRed

From someone with a scientific mind, this was a realistic portrayal of an epidemic movie. It's not over the top and wildly crazy. I saw it twice in the theater. Loved it....

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Movieline
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Contagion's restraint is marred by one element - Alan Krumwiede, the San Francisco-based activist blogger played by Jude Law, a conspiracy theorist who wields claims about uncovering the truth like a blunt instrument intended to menace. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Here's a scare-the-crap-out-of-you medical thriller about a viral pandemic that will have the immediate post-screening effect of causing a handwashing stampede. Read full review

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

By the time this globe-hopping, movie-star-crammed disaster saga - directed with petrifying efficiency by Steven Soderbergh - comes full circle, you'll never want to touch a subway pole or elevator button or ATM again. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

As a filmmaker Soderbergh requires nothing more of us than a willingness to enjoy ourselves. He had fun. Why shouldn't we? With Contagion, the fun begins with a cough. Read full review

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Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff in "Contagion."