Pandemic (2007) (TV)

Director:

Armand Mastroianni

Writers:

Bryce Zabel (writer)
Jackie Zabel (writer)

Release Date:

26 May 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine. |

Plot Keywords:

Shak | Bird Flu | Taxi | Los | Shack

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Tiffani Thiessen	...	Kayla Martin
Vincent Spano	...	Troy Whitlock
Faye Dunaway	...	Govenor Shaefer
Eric Roberts	...	Mayor Dalesandro
Bruce Boxleitner	...	Friedlander
Bob Gunton	...	Sorkosky
Alex Paez	...	Roberto Ruiz
James DuMont	...	Phil Duin
French Stewart	...	Dr. Carl Ratner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Darryl Armbruster	...	Talent agent
René Ashton	...	Kelly
Candice Azzara	...	Heidi
Dana Barron	...	Lindsey
Matt Battaglia	...	Frank
Alan Blumenfeld
Gabriel Bologna	...	Pharmacist
Wendy Braun	...	Stephanie Benson
Austin Brooks	...	Air Traffic Controller
Scott Michael Campbell	...	Rick Foxhoven
Jo Champa	...	Aria Beutefeldt
Tony Clarno	...	Charlie
Robert Curtis Brown	...	Hendler
Brionne Davis	...	ATM guy
Charles Duckworth	...	Derek
John Dybdahl	...	Truck Driver
Gina Fricchione	...	TV Reporter
Matt Gould	...	Jake Laramie
Denise Grayson	...	Airline Passenger
Mike Grief	...	Marcus Guerguerian
Shashawnee Hall	...	Pete Sampson
Kelly Heyer	...	Brooke Floren
Isabella Hofmann	...	Mrs. Smith
Brandy Howard	...	Orley
John Kapelos	...	Michael Torino
David Lengel	...	Jack
Barry Livingston	...	Dr. Winston Tamm
Michael Massee	...	Edward Vicente
Rod McCary	...	Judge
Tom Mesmer	...	Passenger
Thomas A. Miller	...	Police Officer
David Newham	...	Joe Tooley
Robert Norsworthy	...	Harry Firestone
Kyra Lin Oser	...	Scientist (as Kyra Lin)
Marty Papazian
Tiara Parker	...	Tonya
Colby Paul	...	Gil Whitlock
Stephen Ramsey	...	Gibby Smolack
Anthony Reynolds	...	Soldier
Robin Riker	...	Sarah Adams Caplan
Sandra Robinson	...	Carla Florin
Onahoua Rodriguez	...	Angela Ruiz
Rigo Sanchez	...	Mr. Culp
Mik Scriba	...	Coleman
Kyle Searles	...	Ames
Barry Sigismondi	...	Chris Fentress
Rico Simonini	...	Valdez
Alex Skuby	...	Captain Nick Salter
Renée Taylor	...	Kathryn Hadorn
Brian Tee	...	Danny
William Tempel	...	Officer Hashimoto
Tamlyn Tomita	...	Melissa Lo
Theo Wilson	...	Henry Littlefield

Runtime:

USA:180 min (with commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Hallmark

Goofs:

Factual errors: The siren used at the start of the movie for the Australian police car is not the one actually used in Australia.

Quotes:

[making a statement to the press]
Mayor Dalesandro: Los Angeles has always had it's share of trials and natural disasters; earthquakes, floods, and now this riptide virus. But we are a strong city, full of strong people. Governor.
Govenor Shaefer: Today we have hope to go with that strength. A treatment has been found that will buy us the time necessary to develop a lasting vaccine. It is a blessing within a curse, but it will soon be available to us all. In moments like this there are always many people to thank, our First Responders, our Police, Fireman, and Paramedics. People who put the lives and safety of others above their own.
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About as inventive as the telephone book

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I should start by confessing that I didn't last the distance on this movie - I bailed when we got to the traditional gooey sentimental bits - but I can't resist a good disaster movie. This was not one of them.

The start was not promising. Note to producers - if you want to show someone just coming out of the water from surfing, make sure there's something more than a six inch break in the background. There's actually very little surfing in far North Queensland because the Great Barrier Reef stops the swell from coming in. Second note to producers - there is no way you could get from far North Queensland to Sydney by car in 8 hours.

After that, things got a little better. A bit of character establishment on the plane (so we care about them later when they keel over) though I do wonder why there only seemed to be one stewardess. The landing, unloading of body and passengers and the setting up of the ERC was all low key and convincing. The hovering media rang true but I cannot believe that the Head of the CDC would be so incompetent at handling them.

Then it started to get gooey and silly. Gangsters being broken out with no security to be seen. Nieces having to take taxis and thus getting the virus because career-oriented mothers and aunts can't spare the time to pick her up (and can I say that the niece got to the coughing up blood stage remarkably fast). Touching farewells between FBI colleagues - "Hey, you're going to die (maybe he didn't), it's been nice knowing you."

That was when I gave a less than touching farewell to this movie.