Contagion (2011)

Contagion rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.8/10· 330K votes

Rotten Tomatoes85%

Metacritic70%

TMDb6.649/10· 7K votes

With 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.8/10 on IMDb and 70/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Contagion

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Cast of Contagion

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  Marion Cotillard

  as Leonora Orantes

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  Matt Damon

  as Mitch Emhoff

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  Laurence Fishburne

  as Ellis Cheever

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  Jude Law

  as Alan Krumwiede

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  Kate Winslet

  as Erin Mears

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  Jennifer Ehle

  as Ally Hextall

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  Gwyneth Paltrow

  as Beth Emhoff

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  Bryan Cranston

  as Lyle Haggerty

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  Elliott Gould

  as Ian Sussman

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  Chin Han

  as Sun Feng

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  John Hawkes

  as Roger

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  Anna Jacoby-Heron

  as Jory Emhoff

Contagion facts

Budget

$60M

Box office

$137.6M

Our take on Contagion

Steven Soderbergh's 2011 drama-thriller with science-fiction leanings charts the outbreak of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the epidemic spreads across the globe, the medical community races to identify the pathogen and develop a cure while trying to contain a panic that outpaces the disease itself. Soderbergh favors a cool, procedural, multi-strand approach, following the science, the logistics and the social breakdown with clinical precision rather than melodrama. That restraint makes it gripping for viewers who like grounded, research-minded storytelling and ensemble structure. Anyone wanting a single hero or conventional catharsis may find it detached, and some may find its subject uncomfortably close to real experience.