This week Darryl pulls a modern classic down off the shelf: Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 pandemic thriller Outbreak. When a deadly, Ebola-like virus is smuggled out of Africa and turned loose in a small California town, it falls to an army virologist (Dustin Hoffman) and his CDC ex-wife (Rene Russo) to stay one step ahead of it, and one step ahead of the people who would rather bury the truth than cure it. With Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kevin Spacey rounding out one of the great thriller ensembles of the decade, this is a film that plays very differently now than it did thirty years ago.

Darryl first caught this one on the big screen back in 1995, and coming back to it after the world went through a pandemic of its own, he found a film that had quietly grown into something far closer to home. He digs into Petersen's masterful command of tension, that extraordinary cast, and the real villain hiding underneath all the hazmat suits, before landing on a Frame 70 verdict that might just send you back to it yourself.

This is a conversation, not a conclusion. Have a listen, and let us know how Outbreak lands for you.

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