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Contagion is a terrific movie that will probably scare the pants off you and make you wash your hands more often.

Contagion

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it stars a number of famous actors, some who have won Academy Awards and a few who will surprise you when they get sick and die.

Yes, the movie is about a virus that mutates, transfers from animals to humans, and then is spread around the world by casual contact, causing people to cough and then to die within days.

And it can happen all too easily today.

The movie tracks the progress of the spread starting from Day 2, which will be explained at the end of the movie, and when someone asks Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, “You okay?” when she starts coughing, and she answers, “Yeah, I’m just jet lagged,” you know that isn’t the reason and that she will infect more people, which will spread to more cities and more continents.

We watch the spread from day to day, see people who are affected as well as who are infected, and see how various organizations react and try to stop the spread and find a cure for the virus.

Matt Damon plays Gwyneth’s husband, and luckily he is immune from the virus.

Laurence Fishburne plays the doctor in charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jude Law plays an investigative blogger in San Francisco who realizes that there is a pandemic before the other media do and is very suspicious of what the government is doing or not doing.

Marion Cotillard plays a doctor for the World Health Organization who is sent to Hong Kong to try to find where and how it all started.

Kate Winslet plays a doctor working at the CDC who is sent to Minneapolis to investigate the sudden death of Gwyneth Paltrow’s character.

And Elliott Gould plays a scientist in San Francisco who breaks government protocol while trying to isolate the virus.

So, if you are germaphobic to begin with, you might want to wait to see this movie in the comfort, safety, and cleanliness of your own home, but do see it, because we all might need to use the information contained in it.

And stay to the end to see what happened on Day 1.

Contagion is deadly entertainment.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”