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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790743677
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790743671
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 26, 1999
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 21491
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 06, 1978
Editorial Review:
Description:
Before he created 'ER' Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Twister) adapted and directed (his debut behind the camera) this chiller from Robin Cook's best-seller about a sinister medical conspiracy. Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas and Richard Widmark star as doctors caught in its web.
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Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a coma. Wheeler learns that a tissue sample from the young woman went to the lab, then soon finds out that a high number of patients have become comatose recently. She digs a little deeper and finds a conspiracy mired in hospital politics, running afoul of the head of anesthesia, Dr. George (Rip Torn) and the head of surgery, Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark). Nobody believes the young MD, not even her boyfriend Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), but she soon uncovers a black-market trade in body parts, conducted offsite at the Jefferson Institute, a state-of-the-art coma-care facility. As a thriller, Coma certainly has its moments (the scene where a hit man is buried under a pile of frozen-stiff cadavers is an inspired touch), but it's not without its problems. Director Michael Crichton is an MD himself, and the film has a seamless, almost mechanical structure and plotline (taken from the Robin Cook novel). However, the movie's cold, detached feel works against it at times, making the suspense scenes oddly more effective but rendering the emotional content of the characters rather flat. Douglas in particular seems to not put much into his performance; Bujold, on the other hand, is strong and resourceful as the movie's protagonist. More telling, perhaps, is the way that the story shows its age in a time when medical ethics have changed and the phrase 'organ harvesting' has made its way into our lexicon. --Jerry Renshaw
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Do they show this film in hospital waiting rooms?
Do you have any fears about going into the hospital? If so the movie ''Coma'' will probably scare the socks off you. This creepy 1978 medical horror film is based on a book by Robin Cook while the film version is directed by Michael Crichton.
The plot initially focuses on a young woman's mysterious lapse into a coma while in surgery. Dr. Susan Wheeler (played by Genevieve Bujold), friend of the affected woman, starts investigating the case, although the doctors involved discourage her. ... Read More
Rating: - Too much dialog!
I've read the book COMA and prefer it much more than the movie. During about the first part of the movie, there is a lot of dialog and is a little boring. Starting into the second half though, things start to step up! This is a great science fiction movie!
Rating:  - Good suspense thriller
Good suspense thriller that demonstrates that you do not need a megabudget of special effexts to make a good movie
Rating: - believeable
I saw this film - Coma - many years ago, and it starts out very nice with the kind atmosphere you`ll find in a hospital. Some kind low voices, and some intercom orders that tells the "people in white" something. But after sometime you are shown a side of a hospital that is raising the hair on your head and make you think: I hope I will stay healthy. And you feel the scaryness when you start to be aware of that you might not come out of the hospital again - alive.
But what makes this film so special ... Read More
Rating: - COMA-A Silly but Entertaining "Medical" Conspiracy Film
COMA was a very entertaining four star movie starring Michael Douglas. The plot involved a medical conspiracy at a major Boston hospital resulting in several murders disguised as adverse drug reactions during surgery. All this was performed in order to gather suitable doners from which to harvest and market organs to the highest bidder (I said it was silly).
Naturally, the individual suspicious of a conspiracy is accused of being paranoid by management and required to see a shrink in order to maintain ... Read More
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