Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Julianna Margulies | ... | Dr. Nancy Jaax | |
Noah Emmerich | ... | Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax | |
Topher Grace | ... | Dr. Peter Jahrling | |
Liam Cunningham | ... | Wade Carter | |
Paul James | ... | Ben Gellis | |
Robert Sean Leonard | ... | Walter Humboldt | |
Robert Wisdom | ... | Col. Vernon Tucker | |
Nick Searcy | ... | Frank Mays | |
Lenny Platt | ... | Capt. Kyle Orman | |
Anna Pniowsky | ... | Jaime Jaax | |
Rosemary Dunsmore | ... | Nancy's Aunt | |
Chuck Shamata | ... | Nancy's Father | |
Mark Kelly | ... | Bruce Domanski | |
Aiden Glenn | ... | Jason Jaax | |
Aldrin Bundoc | ... | USAMRIID Lab Tech |
Based on the eponymous international bestseller by Richard Preston, The Hot Zone recounts the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus, a highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest and its first arrival on U.S. soil. In 1989, when this killer suddenly appears in monkeys (Cynomolgus or crab eating macaques) in a scientific lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. -- a stone's throw away from the White House -- there is no known cure. A heroic U.S. Army veterinarian, working with a secret military SWAT team, puts herself in mortal peril when she tries to head off the outbreak before it spreads to the human population. The Hot Zone is a dramatic, hair-raising account of a rare and lethal virus and its impact on the human race.
Based on true events and a lot of stupidity. The story was written like the goal was to make the worst Lifetime movie ever. One minute Julianna Margulies is in her office and cutting on a sample and the next, she and the guy who doesn't know anything are going into LEVEL 4 quarantine with negative pressure so the microbes don't get out. But, no one is concerned about the contamination from the meatball dissection she did in her office. The photography is average and the editing makes a lot of bad calls. Lots of good actors in this but I can't stand the way they portray science.