Infection (2012 film)

Infection is a 2012 disaster film starring an ensemble cast such as, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt, Denzel Washington, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Aniston and Mia Wasikowska.

PLOT

The movie opens up with the Bradhoft family returning home from a weekend in Italy. Mike's wife, Shannon shows symptoms of a regular cold that she obviously picked up on the trip. Meanwhile in Canada, a young fashion model, Kalina is about to model her new clothes to a group of scouts and appears to have a virus. She finds bruises all over her body and her face begins to swell and sweat. As Kalina walks on her catwalk to show off her clothes, she falls off and dies of a seizure. In China, a young waiter, Bra Ria is riding home on a bus and finds bruises all over his body. He starts coughing and sneezing in fits. When he gets off the bus, he collapses on the street and starts vomitting up blood. While he lies down on the street, a car comes and accidentally runs him over. In Japan, a business man is driving a bus to New Mexico, he starts sweating and coughing up blood. He pulls over and collapses on the floor and dies from a seizure. In New Mexico, a reporter, Donald Geropoulos hears about these incidents and tries to make the story world wide.

When Mike realises that Shannon has unusual bruises on her body, he suggests that he takes her to a doctor, Mitch Hoffman. When they go to the doctor, Mitch finds nothing wrong with her. The next morning, Shannon collapses on the floor and starts throwing up blood and has a seizure. Mike quickly calls an ambulance and his son, Craig begins showing symptoms of the same virus. Mike tells his daughter, Tory to watch Craig while he goes to the hospital with Shannon. At the hospital, the doctors see the bruises on Shannon's body and experiments on them. They find out that they are some type of bug bites from Italy, with no other explination.

Mike returns home and finds the police there. He rushes in the house to see what's wrong and finds blood all over the floor. The police hold him back and he pushes through them and finds his son, Craig dead on the floor with his entire body swolen. Tory starts crying and tells Mike that she has no idea what happened. The police take Craig's body away and Mike begins crying and breaking down on the floor. Tory tries to calm him down, but fails. Later that night, Mike gets a call from the hospital and the doctors tell him that Shannon died. The cause of her death was from a flea bite. Meanwhile in New Mexico, Donald goes to Mayor Willis Palmer and begs him to make the story of the disease cases viral, but he refuses because it could scare the town and create budget cuts. Donald tells him that things could get worse and takes it upon himself to air the case himself. Mayor Palmer's assistant, Robert tells him that his son is showing signs of the virus, and agrees to help him out.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mitch Hoffman discovers the death of his patient, Shannon and goes to make an investigation. He arrives at a local hospital and finds several patients dying from the same type of virus and he runs out. At a media center, Dr. Lena Mane arrives at a press conference held by Mayor Palmer. They discuss the virus and come to a conclusion that it's a new type of pandemic. Mayor Palmer sends Dr. Mane to Italy to find the origins of this pandemic. Meanwhile, a local journalist, Eleanor Ortiz applys for a job at the media center to work with the mayor. Dr. Mane finds out that a man named Marcus Mills drove the Bradhoft family home. Dr. Mane quickly contacts Marcus and finds out that he died two days ago.

Once Dr. Mane arrives in Italy, she takes samples of the bugs to find the flea that's holding the pandemic. While investigating in a garden, she gets bitten on her finger by a flea and runs to a bathroom to wash the blood off. She begins to have coughing and sneezing fits and fears that she has come into contact with the virus. She calls Mayor Palmer and tells him what happened. He begins to panic and tells her that she needs to stay there to find the pandemic's origin and he promisses to get her home safe and healthy. Donald is still trying to air these events and goes to Dr. Hoffman to get some facts. Dr. Hoffman refuses to give a statement and leaves.

Kristi Haggerty, a local reporter, is now investigating and finds clues to the flea with the pandemic. She reports back to Mayor Palmer and tells him that the flea holding the virus has been contaminated in feces from other diseased animals. Mayor Palmer tells her to report the information to Donald so he can air it on the news. Donald comes in the media center and he, Mayor Palmer and Kristi report the cause of the pandemic and reveal the infected areas. The pandemic is named, The Bubonic Plague. Mayor Palmer advises everyone to get to safe locations and closes down the schools.

Back in Michigan, Mike and his daughter, Tory are driving around with masks on, looking for safe areas. Mike comes across a medical center along with the rest of the town, but can not get in. People start breaking in to the store and steal as many vaccines as they can. Tory finds a secret room, and she and Mike check it out to see if there are any vaccines. Meanwhile in Italy, Dr. Mane starts coughing and sneezing a lot more, but still sticks to the job. She and some other detectives put on protective hazard uniforms and investigate. While Dr. Mane is walking around the area, she collapses on the ground and starts spitting up blood in her hazard uniform. Another investigator finds her corpse on the ground and has her transported to a community hospital.

Meanwhile, Eleanor teams up with a local japanese journalist, Kai Chang and they make a private investigation. Eleanor finds tracings from the previous people, Bra Ria, Kalina, Shannon and the japanese bus driver, who had the virus. They were all in Italy that weekend and they all came into contact with Shannon Bradhoft. Kristi goes to the local medical center to find a vaccine. She the Bubo Vaccine and injects herself with it to test it out. She finds the vaccine to be accurate and she makes the public announcement on the news. Donald is now creating his own vaccine and makes it public, but it could be a placible. Donald is taken into questioning about his invention, and he tells the world it is accurate inorder to get rich. His invention later fails and he is later sent in for questioning. His vaccine turns out to just be a placible and he is sent to jail.

Eleanor gives Kristi's vaccine to Kai Chang's village and everyone becomes cured. He thanks Eleanor for doing business with him and she returns home in relief. When her husband finds out about the placible, she runs back to warn Kai Chang. Kristi is now a millionaire for finding the accurate vaccine and agrees to bale Donald out of jail since they are a team. Mayor Palmer goes to Robert's house and gives his son the Bubo vaccine. Later, Mayor Palmer goes home to his wife, Lisa and they share a kiss, in relief that it's all over. Mike and Tory take their vaccines and embrace eachother in relief that they are safe. Tory's boyfriend, Nolan comes over and has also taken the vaccine. Mike leaves them alone and Tory and Nolan make out. Mike goes upstairs to look through the photos they took in Italy. He spots his family portrait that they took and sees Shannon holding a flea in her hand and he begins to teer up. While Tory and Nolan are making out, Tory tells him that she is pregnant. He smiles and tells her he loves her and they continue to make out.

EPILOGUE

The origination to The Bubonic Plague is revealed. While the Bradhoft's were in Italy, a passing truck threw out a miniture toilet with other diseased animal's feces in it. A flea flew into the feces and became contaminated with the other animal's disease. It flew back to the Bradhoft's location and into a garden. While Shannon Bradhoft was exploring, she found the flea, picked it up and held it during her family portrait.

CAST

Emily Blunt as Dr. Eleanor Ortiz

Leonardo DiCaprio as Mike Bradhoft

Denzel Washington as Mayor Willis Palmer

Rachel Weisz as Dr. Lena Mane

Mia Wasikowska as Shannon Bradhoft

Janelle Ortiz as Tory Bradhoft

Chandler Riggs as Craig Bradhoft

Ewan McGregor as Donald Geropoulos

Jennifer Aniston as Kristi Haggerty

George Clooney as Dr. Mitch Hoffman

B.D. Wong as Kai Chang

Akanishi Jin as Bra Ria

Paula Patton as Lisa Palmer

Blake Lively as Kalina

Sota Aoyama as Japanese bus driver

Brent Stait as Robert

NOTES

This film's virus is based on the real life virus, The Bubonic Plague which took place in Italy back in the 1930's.