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fatal contact: bird flu in america: 3 out of 10: this movie is both funny and sad. the funny part is fairly obvious as this certainly isn' t a sober look at a possible impending ...
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fatal contact: bird flu in america ,
a made - for - television movie tonight on abc, imagines what could happen if bird flu mutated into a virus that was transmitted easily from human to human: millions die, the economy collapses, people riot, and there is almost nothing to be done .
may 10, 2006 (cidrap news)  the creators of the fictional abc - tv movie
fatal contact: bird flu in america
blended medical facts from the 1918 influenza pandemic with current predictions from flu experts to portray a contemporary flu pandemic, but they added a liberal dash of sensationalism .
ordinary american citizens rally, but
fatal contact
does not have a disney ending. just as the pandemic is beginning to slow in the united states, dr. varnack is summoned to angola to track a new and even more lethal strain of bird flu .
joely richardson, right, as a top epidemiologist dealing, somewhat vacantly, with a bird flu pandemic .
fatal contact
is not very elegantly filmed, but some scenes cannot help being striking: one night governor newsome sees garbage trucks dump piles of bodies, wrapped in plastic bags, into a giant landfill .
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fatal contact
is a may sweeps movie, not a public service message, so it is hardly surprising that it errs on the side of armageddon, but that does not mean it is irresponsible. it is a soberly and compellingly told tall tale, and quite alarming .
it is comforting to know that even in a global pandemic of flu, the french can be faulted .
most of the film' s other assumptions are grim but not preposterous. its worst - case scenario led flu experts to express concern that the film was sensationalist and could needlessly panic viewers. but
fatal contact
is not harebrained science fiction. as many as 50 million people died in the 1918 spanish flu epidemic. there are plenty of experts who say that the strain of avian flu known as a (h5n1) could mutate and spread efficiently among humans. in real life, scientists have said publicly what one movie epidemiologist says to another after the first human case is diagnosed :
it' s not a question of if, but when .
a highly contagious, rapidly killing hemorrhagic mutation of bird flu slaughters people in hongkong. preventing its spread is virtually hopeless, as soon is proved in a us country village, which is strictly quarantined by the military. the white house prefers to' prevent panic', even overrules zealous governor mike newsome and reneges earlier emergency plans .
an outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human .
fatal contact
portrayed a number of difficulties and dilemmas that public health planners are envisioning now as they prepare for a pandemic. some examples include the necessity of rationing vaccine and ventilators, overwhelmed hospitals, the use of overflow hospitals, shortages of healthcare workers as staff members stay home to care for their families, shortages of ordinary drugs and medical supplies, such as insulin, and food shortages caused by disrupted transportation systems .
an american businessman on his way back home to virginia from hong kong becomes infected with a mutated bird flu strain which is now transmittable from human to human. american authorities attempt to contain the virus before it' s too late. starring joely richardson, scott cohen, justina machado
ok, we need a protagonist, someone who can stand toe - to - clawed foot with our avian death - overlords. our heroine is a genetic scientist and one of the world' s leading experts in bird flu (that' s helpful). her name is not important, but she looks like ann coulter and favors cashmere blouses and trendy soho jewelry. she' s played by joely richardson, one of those
hollywood names
whose resume is not nearly as impressive as her familiar - sounding name. the doctor, as she will be known, is at the top of her game, fully knowledgeable in all things bird flu and well connected in political circles. she' s also a frigid control - freak with intimacy issues, spurning lasting relationships for casual sex and distancing herself from any displays of empathy or care .
corpse management will be a real concern [ in a pandemic ], but i can' t imagine under any condition we would put bodies in the back of a truck and dump them in ,
said osterholm .
i have been researching the avian h5n1 flu for quite a while now, and was impressed with this film' s accuracy .
secretary stacy keach now dies from the flu. gasp! even rich and powerful white men can die? oh no, this
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first off, i am fighting a cold today, so this movie done scared the poo out of me. by the time it was over, i was sure i had bird flu, and after spending the next three hours on webmd trying to find out if my persistent cough was the first sign of my lungs liquefying, i had just made myself sicker. i guess that' s what makes for a powerful film, something that causes such a visceral reaction in the viewer, so in that respect this movie was awesome .
smilin' bob then goes back to his idyllic suburban family in richmond, virginia and proceeds to infect everyone around him with this incurable killer virus. he eventually dies a horrible, blood - splattered death on the sales floor of a wal - mart, but not before he' s spread his germs around town, to his family, his friends, his coworkers, even his mistress with the big hooters down in yorktown. smilin' bob is patient zero, the typhoid mary of bird flu, and ground zero is the commonwealth of virginia .
but, sadly, that evil little chinese girl will have the last, cackling, blood - curdling laugh, stabbing us through the heart one last time with her jonas brothers pencil. the stinger is the doctor in sweltering equatorial angola, where the bird flu has mutated into a 100% killer strain that snickers in the face of any vaccine, and now the fate of the human race is sealed. the closing credits roll with the ominous sight of a flock of infected birds flapping over the verdant jungles, surely heading off to kill off the rest of humanity .
in the early days grocers scandalously increase prices: a pound of coffee sells for $ 19. within a few weeks supermarket aisles are as barren as russian stores in soviet times .
more bad news as the governor' s child dies from the flu, even though he was sequestered in the bunker. the governor now sees the error of his ways and lifts the (pointless) quarantines in his state. he then visits a dumping ground for corpses, a powerful scene staged late at night (though stolen from
the doctor goes to rural china to check on reports of the initial outbreak there (this is before smilin' bob comes home). quickly, her fears of a killer global flu are realized as it' s learned that the virus has jumped from animal to human and on to other humans (which means that this new strain is unknown to medical science and therefore ultimately dangerous to us all). she suggests rigorously isolating the town where it started, to cut off all contact with the residents, and hope that maybe this will stop the virus from spreading (in vain, it seems) .
in new york a nurse named alma ansen (justina machado) finds herself overwhelmed working at a makeshift flu center consisting of tents erected at the bottom of a subway station. her husband, curtis (david ramsey), a national guardsman, is redeployed to new york from iraq to maintain order in the panic - stricken city. in richmond denise connelly (ann cusack), the widow of patient zero, becomes a community organizer, helping stranded neighbors find scarce help and provisions .
the illness in the american businessman who has the first us case in the film clearly resembles the illness that struck many in 1918. after fits of violent coughing, he suddenly collapses on the job, blood streaming from his nose. he later dies of acute respiratory distress. at his autopsy, a cdc doctor says ,
he coughed so violently he tore apart his abdominal muscles. he basically drowned in his own blood .
meanwhile, in fort lauderdale, fla. , the country' s top epidemiologist, dr. iris varnack (joely richardson), is in a black slip, smoking a post - coital cigarette and warning her lover not to expect much follow - up .
i' m better in small doses ,
she tells him .
to steal a quote from my favorite band, it' s the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine (actually, according to this movie, if i had the bird flu, i' d feel like shit, i' d have
body aches so intense i would feel like my bones are breaking
and would be
coughing so violently that i' d tear apart my abdominal muscles and my rib cartilage, and basically drown in my own blood
). the nurse is part of a team of medical professionals treating flu victims who are massing in an ad - hoc hospital set up in a subway station (a stunningly great visual image as the camera follows her down the escalator into the teaming morass of blood and mucus below). this is third world medical service, with no medicines, no machines, no sterilization, just helping hands and tearful eyes. the doctors and nurses can do little but try and comfort the dying and remove the dead .
our show starts in rural china with a young girl hiding her infected chickens from local cops who are rounding up everyone' s roosters and hens to contain a suspected bird flu outbreak. as it turns out, little peggysue' s chickens have the dreaded h5n1 bird flu virus and it' s mutated where it can jump from animals to humans for the first time. as such, the first prime carrier is this seemingly innocent little schoolgirl, and all of what we see next is clearly totally her fault. her conscious decision to shack up with poultry will be the cause of a wave of untold death and destruction like the world has never seen, and she may very well be doing it on purpose for some nefarious reason known only to that unique demographic that likes hannah montana and pepperoni pizza rolls. i believe that she is the fifth horse (wo) man of the apocalypse, though as a ten - year old girl i' m sure she' ll be riding a sparkly talking unicorn with chiffon wings and a rainbow saddle, and beneath her quaking, paisley pink hooves humanity will be ground into dust .
in the drama, h5n1 avian flu begins to spread from person to person in china, signaling the start of a pandemic. an american businessman contracts the virus and brings it back to his home in virginia, where he spreads it to others before falling desperately ill. soon, cases are spreading across the united states. as panic spreads, the governor of virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up, and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs. major socioeconomic disruption sets in, with shortages of food and medical supplies, power outages, and riots in the streets of new york. eventually (after countless numbing commercials), the pandemic begins to subside. but in the final scene, the discovery that the entire population of an angolan village has died heralds a new mutation of the virus and a second wave of cases .
the bird flu is really beating up the world hard now, tens of millions are already dead, that number increasing at an insane rate daily. society is breaking down, economies are collapsing, and the very fabric of civilization is unraveling rapidly. the general mood is despair and terror, as everyone is sure this is the end of days. but, hey, relax, we' ve been through this before, right? the black death took away half of europe, but they survived, right, hell they even prospered. sure, the spanish flu killed 50 mil, but medical science back then was primitive, with today' s technology that 1918 outbreak would have been easily contained .
he dies not long after he returns to his wife and children in richmond, va. , and becomes patient zero in a public health emergency so vast that no federal agency, state or community is even remotely prepared to handle it .
the doctor goes to see the governor of virginia in his command bunker to talk with him about the flu outbreak in his state and his response. she preaches to him about how his harshly - imposed isolation of infected neighborhoods in richmond is a terribly bad idea because it' s a violation of peoples' basic human rights to live free, make their own choices, and count on each other for help. hmmm... wasn' t she all gung - ho for isolating that chinese town back in the beginning? seems odd that she' s now all
protect human rights
when before she was all
surround the town with an electric fence
.
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
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by now, the bird flu is popping up in isolated outbreaks all over the usa (thanks, smilin' bob !). it' s shaping up to be the worst case scenario of all worst case scenarios, the epidemic sweeping away all the carefully laid - out contingency plans and earnestly crafted operational guidelines. there' s no vaccine, no hope, no time to react, no pause to allow the huge, ungainly machine that is the medical and pharmaceutical communities to come to grips with the fact that people are dying by the thousands hourly and there' s nothing in their arsenal to fix it. governors band together to call for their national guard troops to return from overseas deployments (best bit). did i mention that this is all that girl' s fault ?
the 200 - plus human cases of h5n1 that have occurred over the past 3 years have been severe as well, of course, but just how closely the movie portrayal resembles them is not clear from our perspective. in any case, in depicting a 1918 - like illness, the producers deliberately chose a worst - case scenario. while disease experts agree that a flu pandemic is inevitable sooner or later, they don' t believe it will inevitably be as severe as in 1918. even if the h5n1 virus is the pathogen, in acquiring the ability to spread from person to person, it could become less virulent. the other two 20th century pandemics, in 1957 - 58 and 1968 - 69, were far milder than 1918. the fact is that no one knows how severe the next pandemic will be .
this is an excellent, well acted well thought out film. the scenarios are very real. i cannot help but surmise that when a major flu pandemic hits, we will react much the way ...
a good movie that shows how pandemic diseases spread expotentially. as the movie progressed it became rather unrealistic and inconsistent in certain areas .
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i felt this was very well done, it did not pull any punches. it show what could very well happen if, not if but when a flu like this happens. a lot can be learned from this film .
u. s. officials scramble to maintain order and confront catastrophic results when a deadly strain of avian flu mutates into a global pandemic. joely richardson, stacy keach, justina machado, ann cusack. directed by richard pearce .
the end of the film, in which an entire angolan village appears to have been wiped out, is another example of sensationalism. osterholm, who previewed the film but was not involved in it, commented in a news conference this week that the scene
looks like the jonestown massacre, not something caused by infectious disease .
a 100% fatality rate would be highly unlikely with any virus. in fairness, the producers told the new york times that the scene was meant to show a village that was emptied by a combination of evacuation and disease .
the governor of virginia, mike newsome (scott cohen), decides he wants to be
proactive
and puts endangered neighborhoods in quarantine and barricades his staff and family in a guarded, bio - secure location that dr. varnack dismisses as a
fortress of solitude .
forget about hitchcock' s birds, because in this made - for - television disaster film an outbreak of the dreaded avian flu mutates to cause a worldwide pandemic that will shake the very foundations of modern society. the worst case scenario has finally become a reality. born in hong kong and gradually adapting the traits which allow it to transfer from human to human, the avian flu causes mass panic as tens of millions of men, women, and children rapidly succumb to the its ravaging effects. as panic sweeps through the streets and entire cities are quarantined, humankind will discover that the dreaded black death of the 14th century was merely a minor precursor to the virus that would decimate the entire planet as it threatens the very existence of the human race .
[ editor pam: i' ve heard medical experts say that in both those cases, the majority of deaths could have been prevented by modern medicine. of course, if modern sanitation had been in effect at the time of the black death, it probably wouldn' t have happened. ]
premise: u. s. officials scramble to maintain order and confront catastrophic results when a deadly strain of avian flu mutates into a global pandemic. joely richardson, stacy keach, justina machado, ann cusack. directed by richard pearce. (more )
the disease shown in the film, aired may 9, bore a strong resemblance to the illness that killed an estimated 675, 000 americans in 1918 and 1919. and a good many of the issues raised came straight out of the us government' s pandemic preparedness plans and recent news stories about possible pandemic scenarios. but some scenes and details went well beyond what happened in 1918 or what is plausible today. and along the way, important medical details were left out .
this one is right on the money. we have already seen this happen but not to the extent thats shown in the movie. it is a very real possibility
the governor, by the way, will end up playing a major role in this movie, getting just as much screen time and meaningful dialogue as the doctor .
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i watched this movie for the first time as a requirement in a microbiology class. i was pleasantly surprised how well made the movie was. my son was small at the time & hated shots - 3 hrs in the dr office to try to get them. he watched this movie with me and at the end said
mommy can i get my flu shot tomorrow
. this movie explains & showcases how easily a pandemic can happen, what could happen even with emergency preparedness, and leaves you with a sense of
wow ...
to realize that once you think you have a hang on things - viruses mutate. all these years later i' m still telling people about this movie. i was disappointed it' s not offered in digital format but was thrilled i could still find it .
the production also gave birders and conservationists reason to complain. it began and ended with scenes of wild geese in flight, implying that wild birds are the main carriers of the h5n1 virus around the world. this question is hotly debated, but most experts would probably say that both wild birds and poultry handling practices play a role in spreading the pathogen .
a virus with no cure. a threat with no borders. a nation with no chance of escaping h5n1, the avian flu. when a mutation of the virus is discovered in a local marketplace, china sends an emergency summons to dr. iris varnack (joely richardson) of the epidemic intelligence service. when she arrives, she discovers her efforts may be too late - an american businessman has become the first victim of a strain that is passed from human to human. as the flu begins its insidious spread, secretary of health and human services collin reed (stacy keach) races to combat the ensuing chaos. the victim' s wife, denise connelly (ann cusack), does what she can to help other infected people. it wasn' t supposed to happen this way - until it did .
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an american businessman flies to hong kong. in guangdong province in southern china, soldiers storm an outdoor market, forcibly confiscating chickens from terrified peasants. the american visitor negotiates production rates with a manager on a factory floor; a worker on the assembly line coughs. by the time the american is relaxing on the long flight home, his germs are spreading from paper napkin to martini olive to sleeve .
let' s meet the nurse' s husband, a big strapping soldierboy called back from iraq to do homefront duty in flu - ravaged nyc. they have some genuinely sappy couple - moments as they reconnect and share their fears and concerns about their uncertain future. there is some real on - screen chemistry here, and it wouldn' t surprise me at all if they ended up dating after the film wrapped (i hear that sort of thing is common in hollywood). the soldier wants his wife the nurse to stay home, worried that her job at the hospital is too dangerous, but she' s dedicated to saving lives. as is he, clearly, and he knows she' s only doing what he himself would do .
france is the first country to develop a vaccine, but its leaders refuse to share the patent; finally, after the international community threatens sanctions, the french surrender. however gratifying, that fantasy is one of the sillier conjectures in the film. france would have no reason to prevent other countries from reproducing the vaccine, and even if it did, nearly all countries have laws that allow them to violate patents in emergencies .
for those interested in medical and epidemiologic details, the film left some major questions unanswered. there was no indication of the case - fatality rate, for one thing. it appeared that only two characters who had the disease survived (the son of the businessman, and a soldier who got sick while in iraq), which implied a very high fatality rate. but no clear information was given. nor was there any indication of the age distribution of cases. was it the typical pattern, with the very young and very old most affected? or did the illness hit young adults the hardest, as occurred in 1918? it wasn' t clear .
[ editor pam: it' s a dramatic movie, but in real life, plagues that kill people this quickly also tend to burn out quickly, because their carriers die too fast to spread the disease effectively. ]
another example was the film' s grimmest scene, in which dump trucks back up to a large pit and dump mounds of shrouded human bodies into it. this too may have been inspired by the 1918 experience. in that pandemic, the city of philadelphia was overwhelmed by the number of corpses, and mass graves were used for a time. but there is no record of bodies being unceremoniously dumped, and such a scenario seems inconceivable today .
the 1918 pandemic produced similar reports: people collapsing suddenly, coughing up blood, and autopsies revealing lungs clogged with fluid, the imprint of the
cytokine storm ,
or immune system overreaction. the businessman' s copious nosebleed might have seemed sensational, but it had a basis in fact .
the nosebleed was described in 1918 ,
said michael t. osterholm, phd, mph, director of cidrap .
they made it fairly extreme .
you know, i have to agree with the governor on this, he should totally isolate any infected areas while he still has some semblance of order in richmond. i don' t have any problem with the government taking over in a crisis situation, this is why we pay taxes, and i have an expectation that my duly - elected representatives will do whatever needs to be done to preserve the union, even if it means sending troops into the streets and ringing an infected housing complex with barbed wire and claymores. in almost every situation imaginable that involves large - scale organization and execution of plans, the government / military do a vastly better job than us regular citizens (suck it, ron paul). soldiers have the leadership, training, and material wherewithal to handle mega - crisis situations, plus they get inoculations by the gallon every year and their immune systems are surely better suited to survive in a flu outbreak. the government, both state and national, has the authority and command and control systems needed to do everything needed better, be it routing supplies to hard - hit areas to keeping the lights on and the trains running. i' m all for temporarily giving up my constitutional rights if it means keeping society from collapsing. hell, stamp me with the mark of the new world order right now .
it is true that it showed almost like a documentary; and i liked that about this movie. many disaster movies focus on several troubled relationship and the main theme of the disaster is only a back drop; not so with this film. after watching this movie, i actually felt that i knew more about avion flu and how various government agencies might deal with the problems that develop .
the sex and tobacco are sweeps red herrings, however: once her pager goes off, dr. varnack is on her way to china to check out reports of human - to - human transmission of the avian flu. by the time she is summoned to washington by the secretary of health and human services, collin reed (stacy keach), she has no good news to share .
visiting that very factory that very day is an american businessman, who looks frighteningly like smilin' bob, the guy from all those enzyte male - enhancement commercials. smilin' bob rolls in and throws his import company - given weight around, talking down to the chinese managers, issuing vague threats of cancelled orders and un - reimbursed warehouse expenses, and has the audacity to explain the just - in - time inventory system to them like they are children. thankfully, he gets infected by the dad .
on the vaccine front, the movie made a bad situation look even worse. it depicted the government as having no vaccine at all at the outset of the pandemic. in reality, the government is stockpiling a
pre - pandemic
vaccine based on the h5n1 virus. the supply is small, and studies have shown it takes two large doses to generate an adequate immune response, which occurs in only about half of those vaccinated. but this vaccine would probably be better than nothing if a pandemic began today .
her dad gets the flu but still does his shift at the local bottle factory. he is hacking and coughing all over everyone, not even having the common courtesy to cover his mouth with his sleeve or keep his germy egg salad sandwich off the break room table. this is why you have sick hours, so that you don' t give other people your illnesses, in the long run you' ll be saving the company much more costs from lost man - hours if you just stay home and get well before coming back to work (i have this conversation all the time ...). but if he did that, i suppose we wouldn' t have much of a movie .
another scene in the film has armed men trying to seize a van carrying a supply of vaccine, only to be shot by soldiers. that looked extreme, but osterholm found it conceivable .
i don' t think that one was necessarily unreal ,
he says .
serious now! before, when it was just poor people and minorities (and... shudder... foreigners), it was bad, but you know, not too bad, but now the flu is killing off well - connected princeton - educated white men who sip brandy and attend charity balls at the met. all is indeed lost! the doctor even sheds a tear, the first actual sign that she' s not a cylon cyborg .
the doctor then flies back home and meets with health and human services secretary stacy keach in washington to discuss the flu outbreak (which she predicts will be here soon). it' s a media circus, as a worried public is demanding both answers and solutions from the government, and they can' t offer anything more constructive than
remember to wash your hands !
. i really thought this movie was going to make the government the bad guys, cardboard cut - outs of evil power - hungry politicians with unscrupulous agendas, but much to my surprise the majority of the governmental officials we see really truly care about what happens to the citizens of the country. they are shown as sympathetic and proactive, if understandably concerned about their own districts as well .
people were, you know, not white americans. having the heroine be a racist would certainly add an original note to a tv movie, but i bet this movie isn' t going to go that far. this attitude of hers is probably just a sop to civil libertarians in the audience. ]
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the film begins with a flock of migrating geese in flight, their wings flapping to ominous hitchcockian music. (this is not your parents'
birds .
) the film then locks on to a handful of central characters whose entwined experiences define and track the pandemic. some survivors are more resilient than others, but most overcome despair and rise to the occasion .
in some scenes, the movie clearly went over the top. one was the governor' s decision to quarantine some neighborhoods behind chain link and barbed wire, an obviously futile measure with the pandemic well under way .
i can' t imagine any elected official doing that ,
said osterholm .
i think pressure would be brought to bear by other government leaders
to prevent it .
meanwhile, the rest of world is beginning to die, though it' s only seen through tv news reports playing in the background of scenes. i do appreciate the small - scale focus this movie takes, concentrating just on the outbreak' s effects on richmond and new york city. it gives us a more intimate feel for the apocalypse than if they had tried to do location shoots scattered all over the place .
the long and lean ms. richardson (
nip / tuck
) looks terrific in a white hazmat suit, but her low - key, almost blank affect is a bit odd for the role. the stilted dialogue does not help .
there' s going to be a long and brutal ordeal that will rip apart the fabric of society ,
she warns. dr. varnack is on the front line of the worst crisis of the 21st century, but most of the time she seems stoned .
off to new york city now to meet the nurse, a cute latina woman who will be our secondary female lead. her hospital is swamped under with sick / think - they' re - sick people, they are out of everything, and half the other nurses have quit, but she' s still trying to do what' s right, still clocking in everyday and saving lives the best she can. her very human reactions to the death and dying all around her serve to balance out the cold, analytical detachment of the doctor. and she has pretty hair .
). maybe i' m heartless, but i' m still of the (admittedly unpopular and possibly heinous) opinion that what the world needs is a serious thinning of the population if the environment is ever going to be allowed a chance to heal itself. i' m a closet eco - terrorist and a firm believer in overpopulation being the number one danger to our planet' s long - term survival, and i' d be out there on the frontline of the fight against mankind raping mother nature if i didn' t have to be at work at seven tomorrow and if i didn' t have tickets to
to further swell our hearts with hope and encouragement, we hear that the nurse and the soldier are going to have a child (yay, though who would want to have a baby in such an environment of loss and devastation ?). she surprises him with a book of baby names, and he surprises her with a candlelit dinner and an impromptu salsa dance on the rooftop while sappy music plays and strands of christmas lights twinkle. and this little ray of sunshine, this little green shoot of life, is the scene this movie should end with. a tear - stained reminder that, no matter what troubles befall us, love and family will endure .
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this tv movie is well worth watching especially if you are a disaster movie fan. the movie shows events from several points of view (a nurse, soldier, politician, a family and a pandemic expert) and builds on most of the characters quite well. the acting is acceptable as is how the story flows, the ending is clearly left that way to allow for a follow - up tv series which obviously did not go ahead, so does have a feeling of wanting it to continue to conclusion but the movie does progress far enough to make this a stand alone story. certainly thought provoking and one of the more believable and credible potential disasters that could occur .
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this movie was more of a documentary with several unrealistic scenarios. it was heavy on scary without being really scary .
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more americans get their irresponsible fear - mongering from abc than from any other source .
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we were all going to die (or at least that' s what katie couric kept telling us). i was expecting a hokey crap - fest, but even with such a sensationalist title ,
turned out to be a really engrossing and well - made movie. the actors are uniformly good, the script is surprisingly free of most typical disaster movie awfulness, and the production quality was top - notch. sony pictures threw some money at this one, you can tell, and i had to struggle to find things to poke at to make an amusing review. how did i do ?
hi, i' m the heroine, don' t mind me, i' m just going to sit over here, coolly detached from any real human emotion .
chinese doctor gives her the grim news that it' s out of control .
nice to see they are still hitting the liquor stores, even as the world burns down around them, better than stealing tvs .
we need some action here, so we get a short scene of the soldier and his squad protecting a convoy of food and medicine as it works its way through the violent, deserted concrete canyons of manhattan. they are ambushed by a group of gangsters who wear baggy pants and like to hold their pistols sideways like tupac told them to, but they are no match for the soldiers and their training and discipline (and their full - auto machineguns). this is actually a very well - done combat scene, and it seems that the soldiers are not just actors playing with guns, but maybe even men with real military training (just an observation, and maybe untrue, but i' ve watched enough crappy movies to tell the difference between a squad of soldiers who are just a gaggle of temp - worker extras who' ve seen too many rambo movies, and a squad made up of former active duty infantrymen who have had some actual experience with firearms and small - unit tactical training) .
for next friday night. honestly, caring about things is such a chore, who has the time ?
that' s between you and the vengeful wrath of your personal god ...
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at the very least, abc' s disaster movie will encourage viewers to wash their hands more often .
we believe the ultimate global loss of lives could reach as high as 150 or 350 million ,
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from then on, the film ticks off an exponential death toll. by week 2, 157 have died worldwide. by week 12, the number reaches 12. 5 million .
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executive producers, diana kerew and judith verno for sony pictures television; written by ron mcgee; directed by richard pearce .
with: joely richardson (dr. iris varnack), stacy keach (collin reed), ann cusack (denise connelly), justina machado (alma ansen), scott cohen (gov. mike newsome) and david ramsey (curtis ansen) .
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fatal contact : bird flu in america is an abc two-hour tv movie which first aired may 9 , 2006 in which an american businessman visiting china is infected and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the usa , soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world . before the movie ends , riots erupt , armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide . " 
fatal contact: bird flu in america is an abc two-hour tv movie which first aired may 9, 2006 in which an american businessman visiting china is infected and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the usa, soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world. before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide. "
fatal contact: bird flu in america is an abc two-hour tv movie which first aired may 9, 2006 in which an american businessman visiting china is infected and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the usa, soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world. before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide. "