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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | Video On Demand

Directed By: Richard Pearce
Also With: Dennis A. Brown (Producer)

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$8.99

Binding:

Video On Demand

Run Time:

85 minutes

Studio:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Release Date:

May 15, 2009

Genre:

Action

Synopsis:

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.

Sales Rank:

6,751th

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 7 reviews)

VERY SCARY, VERY REALISTIC by B. RITCHIE (Port Townsend Wa)

5 Stars
July 27, 2009
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 this film portrays. For disaster film fans this is a must.

The disaster movie has become a fine art in Hollywood... by Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)

3 Stars
February 02, 2009
Films like "The Day After" and "The Towering Inferno," bring to life people's fears of death and destruction... As ABC News Correspondent Brian Rooney explains, the latest incarnation of disaster flick envisions a world where bird flu has reached the shores of America... Twenty million dead... Bodies in the streets... Mass graves... Looting... Hoarding... Panic across America... The killer avian virus hits this country and what happens here is beyond imagination... That's according to tonight's ABC made-for-TV-movie, "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America", a purely fictional story of what might happen if bird flu arrived on these shores... The film depicts what could happen as the virus spreads and people react to the catastrophe...

Bird Flu in America by P. Ward (San Antonio, TX)

4 Stars
November 25, 2007
A good movie that shows how pandemic diseases spread expotentially. As the movie progressed it became rather unrealistic and inconsistent in certain areas.

Not your usual Hollywood hype by Steven A. Herr (Jackson, Michigan)

4 Stars
August 29, 2007
I have been researching the avian H5N1 flu for quite a while now, and was impressed with this film's accuracy. I expected this film to be the usual Hollywood treatment where the pretty doctor comes up with the Magic Vaccine at the last minute. I was pleased to be wrong. The statistics were right on, and it gave an accurate view of how the government in its arrogance will be slow to react when the flu finally mutates so that it will be passed easily from human to human. Scenes were well-crafted in regards to bare grocery shelves, the panic buying that ensues when deliveries ARE made, and how the garbage will pile up when the trash collectors are not available. I was impressed with the emphasis on the need for neighbors to pull together to make it through the crisis, and how one individual can make the difference. I do take issue where the film implies that virtually everyone who catches the flu will die. Other than the one boy (I've forgotten his name) EVERYBODY shown who contacts the flu dies. One last thing that stood out for me was that this movie did not put a "happy face" on the situation, but ends with the grim reality that nature does not fit in a tidy little box where things are resolved in 2 hours minus commercials. As they emphasised in the movie, it's not a matter of "if," but "when." I hope people take this film to heart and make preparations NOW, while there is still timwe to prepare. I would recommend that a good starting point would be The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner by Grattan Woodson. I have already given this book a 5-star review, and recommend it without qualification. Naturally, it is available through Amazon.

I thought that this movie was better than average by Brian Burt (Realityland)

4 Stars
July 04, 2007
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.

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