Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Continuity mistake: During the TV interview with Jude Law and Lawrence Fishburne, Jude's front tooth keeps moving. He has a gap in front, then on the side, then his teeth are back to normal.
Continuity mistake: When the woman is writing on the whiteboard how many people people infect with certain illness' the writing on the board changes style. (00:18:40)
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.
Trivia: Contagion got various accolades for its authenticity, being "very well fact checked compared to most science blockbusters", according to New Scientist. The screenwriter did months of research, enlisting the help of epidemiologists who edited the script and guided the actors.
Question: After Alan Krumweide starts spreading misinformation about Forsythia curing MEV-1, we see a scene in a pharmacy being flooded with desperate customers. But if Forsythia is a homeopathic drug, then why is it being sold in pharmacies in the first place? As the characters say later on, it takes months just to get a drug approved, let alone sold.
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Answer: Many pharmacies in the US sell homeopathic supplements.