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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792835011
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0792835018
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 08, 1997
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 23946
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: January 06, 1978
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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:  - HOSPITAL THRILLER
Coma
BASED ON THE BOOK BY ROBIN COOK, THIS IS ONE OF THE LATE MICHAEL CRICHTON'S BEST FILM EFFORTS. GENEVIEVE BUJOLD PLAYS A RESIDENT DOCTOR WHO BECOMES CURIOUS ABOUT CERTAIN PATIENTS GOING INTO A STATE OF COMA, PARTICULARLY FROM O.R.8 (OPERATING THEATRE 8). MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ALSO A RESIDENT AT THE SAME HOSPITAL, DISBELIEVES HER AT FIRST BUT STEP BY STEP SLOWLY GETS CONVINCED THAT SHE IS RIGHT. BOND BEAUTY, LOIS CHILES, FROM MOONRAKER, PLAYS BUJOLD'S CLOSE FRIEND, WHO GOES INTO COMA, RIGHT AT ... Read More
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
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