Product Details

• Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Michael Massee, Vincent Spano
• Directors: Armand Mastroianni
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Rhi Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 14, 2007
• Run Time: 170 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PE0GXM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,175 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
After a nineteen-year-old male dies on a flight following a raging fever and violent convulsions, CDC epidemiologist Dr. Kayla Martin (Tiffani Thiessen) and her partner Carl Ratner (French Stewart) consider the frightening possibilities—the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack, or worse, a new virus they can’t control. But by the time the passengers of the flight are filtered into the ward of a local hospital, the infection is already poisoning sections of Los Angeles, unbeknownst to each victim who passes it on. The virus is spreading, and so is the panic and the fear that it can’t be stopped. Also featuring Faye Dunaway and Eric Roberts, Pandemic is now available for the first time on DVD in an extended version with all-new bonus material. Grab Pandemic…time is running out!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb and worhty of public attention, October 18, 2007

By	Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

It was a very long flight to Oakland (to attend Bioneers), and this movie got me through the last two hours. It is superb. It should be required viewing for every citizen, every official, every foundation leader, every elected person. It is well-crafted, credible, absorbing, and thought-provoking.

Highlights:
* How the selfishness of one "run-away" infected person can kill tens of thousands and defeat the pre-quarantine containment process.
* Failure to control *each* passenger by name in the delicate transition from infected aircraft to controlled environment is the one thing that can destroy a containment.
* Failure to be candid with citizens and put public ran-away notice with photo of the run-away makes the situation much worse. Failure to tell the run-aways office workers and home family the exact threat they represent negates their value in bringing the run-away in before they infect hundreds more directly, thousands indirectly.
* The movie provides a fascination depiction of the scientific investigative process, while also depicting the political tensions among the Mayor, the Governor, and others, each seeking to balance archaic political calculations with unknown biological "runaway train" implications.
* The movie reminds us that a run-away worst impact is among first responders who missed the alerts and begin to die as fast as the people they are treating.
* The utility of ice rinks as emergency morgues for hundreds of bodies.

Overall this is a great movie with a fine plot including a worst case break-out of a convicted drug lord, and what happens when people turn off the radio or silence the witness before they can complete a sentence that begins "it's not so simple."

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad, August 15, 2007

By	K. Rowley (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not too bad.... Was entertaining - but some of the subplots were just a tad too improbable for me. I think there should have been more focus on the public's panic.

3.0 out of 5 stars Pandemic = Panic Minus Three Letters, June 13, 2009

By	Martin Asiner "Adjunct College Instructor" (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

PANDEMIC is a timely reminder of how one case of a highly infectious disease can spread with rapidity through our highly mobile world. Director Armand Mastroani pulls the viewer into the byzantine world of how the Center for Disease Control would confront a nightmare come true. A teenage boy returns from Australia carrying a fatal illness and gets sick on a plane headed for Los Angeles. He dies en route so the plane's passengers are immediately quarrantined. Up to this point, we feel both sympathy and empathy for the stricken. But then the plot takes the first in a series of detours solely to generate what the director feels might be lacking should the film depend solely on the plague to retain audience involvement. When the plane's passengers disembark, one might think that the CDC in conjunction with the federal government would ensure that all the passengers are accounted for. All too easily, one of them slips away to wreak havoc on the general population. A further incredible plot complication lies in that one of the passengers is a big time criminal handcuffed to an FBI agent. A paramilitary squad of terrorists attack the hospital where their boss is being held and they free him. Such digressions dilute the impact of what should be sufficiently involving. Still, the action moves quickly and all too often tragically from scene to scene. There are vignettes of truckloads of wrapped bodies being dumped into communal graves for incineration. It is entirely believable that except for the digressions a plague just like this one could escape to decimate an urban population. We are scared as we watch it and that I think was the point.