If you’ve got fears about the coronavirus that is currently taking over the world, we’ve got the movie that will assuredly calm those fears. In 1995’s Outbreak, Dustin Hoffman stars as a military scientist fighting a virus that has no cure and liquifies your insides in a matter of hours.
Best of all, when the virus finds its way into a small California town, the government’s solution to the problem is to simply drop a bomb and vaporize the town out of existence. Very comforting!
Outbreak was on the early end of ’90s ensemble disaster movies (it also stars Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., uh, Kevin Spacey – and the same capuchin monkey that played Marcel on Friends!), and while it certainly has its fair share of ridiculous leaps of logic, there’s a lot to like in this one, such as the movie’s climactic helicopter chase. Also, you get to see Hoffman do action-star stuff when he jumps out of the helicopter at one point – it’s unsettling!
The streets are slowly descending into chaos over the coronavirus, so be sure to finish up the looting of your local grocery store and settle in for this Revenge of the ’90s episode, which you can check out on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you consume your podcasts.
