Factual error: When a global map is shown, the location of Toronto is incorrect. What is labelled as Toronto is actually the location of Montreal. (01:08:05)
Contagion (2011)
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Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
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Contagion is a 2011 killer virus thriller like Outbreak and others that present the world on the brink of utter disaster once a hereto unknown illness sweeps across unprepared populations, causing a breakdown of society and millions dead while the cure is sought. Lawrence Fishburne and Marion Cotillard play dedicated doctors racing for the cure, Matt Damon as a father who suffers tragedy during the crisis, Jude Law as a conspiracy blogger who challenges the efforts to contain the spread of the bug and the timing of the crisis, Gwyneth Paltrow as one of the very first victims of the highly-infectious disease, and Kate Winslet as another doctor who goes out on the field to track, document and give ongoing assessment of epidemics. Effective and fairly plausible story with some disturbing portrayals of government mishandling, greed, widespread death and chaos.
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Dr. Ellis Cheever: What have you eaten? I mean something that didn't come from a vending machine.
Dr. Erin Mears: Taco Bell!
Trivia: Contagion got various accolades for its authenticity, being "very well fact checked compared to most science blockbusters", according to New Scientist. The screenwriter did months of research, enlisting the help of epidemiologists who edited the script and guided the actors.
Question: After Alan Krumweide starts spreading misinformation about Forsythia curing MEV-1, we see a scene in a pharmacy being flooded with desperate customers. But if Forsythia is a homeopathic drug, then why is it being sold in pharmacies in the first place? As the characters say later on, it takes months just to get a drug approved, let alone sold.
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Answer: Many pharmacies in the US sell homeopathic supplements.