Contagion

Wednesday, September 16 at 7:00 PM
Michigan

Film | Thriller/Sci-Fi | PG-13 | 1h 46m | 2011

Presenting “History of Medicine” with the U-M Department of Psychology and Michigan Medicine, who will lead an introduction and post-film discussion.

When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger fans the flames of paranoia.