Quarantine (2000) (TV)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Chuck Bowman

Writers (WGA):

Lawrence Horowitz (story)
Steven Salzburg (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

5 August 2000 (USA)

Plot:

After terrorists release a mysterious virus on a small village killing all of its inhabitants, the President...

Plot Keywords:

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Cast

Harry Hamlin	...	President Kempers
Joelle Carter
Susan Hogan
Teryl Rothery	...	Researcher
Kevin McNulty
Malcolm Stewart
Larry Musser
Garwin Sanford	...	Bill Evslin
Gary Chalk		(as Garry Chalk)
Nastassja Kinski	...	Dr. Galen Bronty
Brittney Irvin	...	Maxine Bronty
Anne Marie DeLuise	...	Mary Beth Connors (as Anne Marie Loder)
Julie Patzwald	...	Kate
Alex Zahara	...	Stone Pilot
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Brian Arnold	...	Newscaster #2
Steve Bacic	...	Joe Blake
Kevin Blatch	...	Presidential Aide
Kendall Cross	...	Joyce
G. Patrick Currie	...	Cooper
John Dadey	...	Man #1
Linda Darlow	...	Nana
Steve Griffith	...	Controller
Elysa Hogg	...	Little Heather
Kyle Hogg	...	Little One
Brad Loree	...	Lac Tech #1
Catherine Lough Haggquist	...	Agent Pelitere (as Catherine Lough)
Dion Luther	...	Arthur Stone
Dean Mackenzie	...	Explosive Expert
Suzanne Olafson	...	Terrorist Scientist
Joanna Piros	...	Newscaster
Kirsten Robek	...	Susan Evslin
Virk Roop	...	Suspicious Man (as Roop Virk)
J. Scott Shonka	...	Yoasich
Warren Takeuchi	...	Airport Guard #1
Greg Thirloway	...	CIA Pilot (as Gregory Thirloway)
Kate Twa	...	Airport Guard #3
Angelo Vacco	...	CIA Pilot
Donna Yamamoto	...	Female Lab Tech
Peter Yunker	...	Lab Tech #2

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Greengrass Productions

Soundtrack:

Save These Souls

Bitter Sweet Sympathy

Sweet: I have to defend the writer of the film who did manage to get a certain amount of emotional situations into the film. I found the acting to be Ok. It is always difficult to act or judge acting in fictitious films of this nature. How do we know how people would cry about dying relatives etc? I know I've never been in a situation where 50% of the world population was dying. But I have seen people distressed crying and they would be deemed unrealistic in a film.

Bitter: Most of this film is embarrassing. Despite being English I know that America has tighter security on its president than we do on the Royal family and the PM put together, so the whole island, planes, terrorist bit really made it difficult to take any of this film seriously.

Sympathy: For the people who were conned by the, "I've got a great film where a deadly virus sweeps the planet, the president is caught between his job and his family who are desperate to help the suffering. This woman is fighting for a cure but ends up quarantined from her daughter who resents her mother being away from her after her fathers death."

"Hey this has real dramatic potential... no wait, wait, who filled it out with this pile of....