As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.
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Christopher Meloni
- Frank
- (as Chris Meloni)
Ron McClary
- Preacher
- (voice)
Tim D. Janis
- Survivalist
- (as Tim Janis)
Mary Peterson
- Laura Merkin
- (voice)
Sequoyah Adams-Rice
- Sick Child
- (uncredited)
Brighid Fleming
- Sick child
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThough filmed in late 2006, Carriers was not released by Paramount until September 2009, following the success of Chris Pine's appearance in Star Trek (2009), released earlier in 2009.
- GoofsAt the golf resort, characters cock their shotguns, indicating they've been walking around with unloaded weapons. Then they keep cocking them. No live rounds are heard hitting the floor, so evidently they're all carrying empty weapons.
- Alternate versionsThe German Blu-ray and DVD release contains hard language and more bloody violence than the PG-13 Rated U.S. version.
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While the premise of this movie is very relevant to the current state of the world, (Covid-19)the actions by the major players is at best lame and often reaches the point of stupid. An extremely deadly virus has been unleashed on the world and it is almost universally fatal. Two young men and two young women are in a car traveling to a seaside resort where the two boys spent a considerable amount of time in their youth. It takes a bit of time before these facts are clear to the viewer.
The four of them have masks and a lot of bleach and are very cautious about contact with anything that could possible be contagious. At first, they seem very knowledgeable about their situation and what they need to do to survive. The two men are brothers, but the exact situation regarding the two women is unclear.
It does not take long before the intelligence declines and the stupidity rises. When their car is irretrievably broken, the older brother (the leader) takes out his pistol and does some target practice on a political campaign sign. No one with any real sense of their situation would have wasted precious ammunition like that.
Some of their actions appear incredibly foolish once it becomes clear just how deadly the virus is. They arrive at a Center for Disease Control base only to find little more than death and a sense of futility. Almost no one is left alive. Yet, they engage in absurd behaviors where they could suffer broken bones or be in an auto accident.
As disaster movies based on a virulence go, this one had a lot of potential, but it is hard to take a movie based on such actions in response seriously.
- cashbacher
- Mar 28, 2020
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- The Untitled Pastor Brothers Project
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- Gross US & Canada
- $104,352
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $76,857
- Sep 6, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $5,805,279
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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