What Is Contagion?

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Steven Soderbergh came out with yet another medical thriller to the big screen. The release date for Contagion, was on September 9, 2011. Scott Z. Burn was the screenwriter and the majority of successful movies that he wrote had actor Matt Damon. The major actors that played in Contagion were stars like Matt Damon,Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law. The movie Contagion is a great entertaining thriller, realistic, and an unsensational film about a global epidemic. Also it shows a great comparison of the outbreaks that we had before and how dangerous diseases can spread as shown in Contagion.

The Movie starts with a women Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), she is heading back home from Hong Kong. As soon she comes back to the Minneapolis she starts

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