Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller “Contagion” has resurfaced on the iTunes movie charts amidst the Coronavirus spreading from China to other countries.
The movie has popped up on iTunes’s Top Movie List alongside Oscar nominees “Joker,” “Ford v. Ferrari,” “Parasite,” “Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood” and “Hustlers.” Written by Scott Z. Burns, “Contagion” features an aensemble that includes Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet and Jennifer Ehle.
The film, which is astonishingly topical at the moment, reunited Soderbergh with his long-time screenwriting partner Scott.Z Burns. “Contagion” is a though-provoking and tense medical thriller that explores not only the seriousness of a worldwide epidemic but also the urgent response from the scientific community to find a vaccine. In the undeniably frightening movie, a woman (Paltrow) on a Hong Kong business trip who has a layover in Chicago before returning home to Minneapolis, catches a mystery virus during her trip, only to have her symptoms fatally worsen and spread.