"Contagion" was a commercial success, and David Denby of "The New Yorker" praised Winslet for capturing the essence of an exasperated woman.
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Box Office All Time Chart Watch Movies A-Z Theater Counts The Derby Grade Movies My Account More Charts on Premier ...>>> Domestic Total as of Oct. 23, 2011: $73,506,292 (Estimate)Distributor: Warner Bros.Release Date: September 9, 2011Genre: Action ThrillerRuntime: 1 hrs. 45 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13Production Budget: $60 million SHOWTIMES: Zip Code This Movie All Similar Movies Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $73,506,292 76.5% + Foreign: $22,600,000 23.5% = Worldwide: $96,106,292 Domestic Summary Opening Weekend: $22,403,596 (#1 rank, 3,222 theaters, $6,953 average) % of Total Gross: 30.5% > View All 7 Weekends Widest Release: 3,222 theaters In Release: 45 days / 6.4 weeks The Players Director:Steven SoderberghWriter:Scott Z. 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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20150408223447/http://www.newyorker.com:80/magazine/2011/09/19/call-the-doctor-david-denby Subscribe Subscribe # The New Yorker #### The Current CinemaSeptember 19, 2011 Issue # Call the Doctor ## "Contagion." ### By David Denby Table of Contents Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, and Laurence Fishburne in Steven Soderbergh's movie. Credit Illustration by JORGE ARÉVALO You're a school nurse who sends home a little boy flushed with fever; you reach into a bowl of peanuts at a bar; you pick up a cell phone left on a counter. It doesn't take much contact to become infected in "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh's brilliant movie about the grimmest subject imaginable: a pandemic that kills millions of people in a few months. "Contagion" is serious, precise, frightening, emotionally enveloping. It's a highly controlled film about an out-of-control event, a film so sure-handed and intelligent that it has an invigorating, even an enlightening, quality, as if a blurred picture had suddenly come into focus. You leave the movie shaken, but also, at another level, relieved, since there isn't a grandstanding speech (except for one by a demagogue) or an instant of melodrama. "Contagion" confronts reality head on; it's a brief against magical thinking. Soderbergh and his screenwriter, Scott Z. Burns, may not have intended it, but their movie could become an event in an ongoing political debate over the nature of American life. You've read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, SUBSCRIBE NOWIf you're already a subscriber please sign in or link your subscription. David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. 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Kate Winslet
Career.:2008–2011: Awards success.
Winslet, who had recently divorced Mendes, believed that certain aspects of her character's life mirrored her own. She was intimidated by the scope of the production, as she featured in every scene of the 280-page script. She was disturbed and upset by the story, and was particularly fascinated by the complex relationship between the mother-daughter pair. She collaborated closely with the production and costume designers, and learnt to bake pies and prepare chickens. The broadcast received a limited audience but gained positive reviews. Matt Zoller Seitz of Salon called the series a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece" and described Winslet's performance as "terrific—intelligent, focused and seemingly devoid of ego". She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, in addition to Golden Globe and SAG Award wins. 
 The ensemble thriller "Contagion" from Steven Soderbergh was Winslet's first film release of 2011. She was cast as a disease detective for the CDC, and she modelled her role on Anne Schuchat, the director of the NCIRD.